Method of receiving control information for receiving discovery reference signal and apparatus thereof

ABSTRACT

The present specification provides a method and UE for receiving configuration usable for a discovery, which can be used in a small cell scenario. In detail, the UE is configured for receiving measurement configuration for a discovery signal, wherein the discovery signal includes CRS, PSS, and SSS. The discovery may further include a channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on a configuration of the CSI-RS. The measurement configuration may include at least one set of configuration elements. The UE performs a measurement on the discovery signal based on the received configuration. Further, the UE receives channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration including at least one set of CSI-RS configuration elements used for a zero power CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS configuration includes at least one set of CSI-RS configuration elements, each set of CSI-RS configuration elements includes CSI-RS interval information and CSI-RS offset information.

This application is a Continuation of U.S. application Ser. No.15/123,460 filed Sep. 2, 2016, which is a National Stage under 35 U.S.C.371 of International Application No. PCT/KR2015/002102 filed Mar. 4,2015, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Nos.62/037,127 filed Aug. 14, 2014; 62/004,205 filed May 29, 2014;61/990,657 filed May 8, 2014; 61/974,990 filed Apr. 3, 2014; 61/972,386filed Mar. 30, 2014; 61/953,947 filed Mar. 17, 2014 and 61/947,444 filedMar. 4, 2014, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in theirentirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This specification relates to a method of receiving control informationused for a discovery reference signal, more specifically to a method ofreceiving configuration information used for measuring a discoveryreference signal in a user equipment (UE).

BACKGROUND ART

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution(LTE) which is a set of enhancements to the Universal MobileTelecommunications System (UMTS) is introduced as 3GPP Release 8. The3GPP LTE uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) fora downlink, and uses single carrier frequency division multiple access(SC-FDMA) for an uplink, and adopts multiple input multiple output(MIMO) with up to four antennas. In recent years, there is an ongoingdiscussion on 3GPP LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), which is a major enhancement tothe 3GPP LTE.

The commercialization of the 3GPP LTE (A) system is being recentlyaccelerated. The LTE systems are spread more quickly as respond tousers' demand for services that may support higher quality and highercapacity while ensuring mobility, as well as voice services. The LTEsystem provides for low transmission delay, high transmission rate andsystem capacity, and enhanced coverage.

To increase the capacity for the users' demand of services, increasingthe bandwidth may be essential, a carrier aggregation (CA) technology orresource aggregation over intra-node carriers or inter-node carriersaiming at obtaining an effect, as if a logically wider band is used, bygrouping a plurality of physically non-continuous bands in a frequencydomain has been developed to effectively use fragmented small bands.Individual unit carriers grouped by carrier aggregation is known as acomponent carrier (CC). For inter-node resource aggregation, for eachnode, carrier group (CG) can be established where one CG can havemultiple CCs. Each CC is defined by a single bandwidth and a centerfrequency.

Recently, a wireless access network configuration has been changed suchthat various types of small cells having small sizes, such as a picocell, a femto cell, etc., interact with a macro cell having a relativelylarge size. The wireless access network configuration aims to provide ahigh data rate to final UEs and thus increase Quality of Experience(QoE) for the final UEs in a situation where multi-layer cells coexistin a hierarchical structure basically involving a macro cell.

According to one of the current 3rd Generation Partnership Project(3GPP) standardization categories, Small Cell Enhancements for E-UTRAand E-UTRAN SI; e.g., RP-122033, enhancement of indoor/outdoor scenariosusing low-power nodes is discussed under the title of small cellenhancement. In addition, scenarios and requirements for the small cellenhancement are described in 3GPP TR 36.932.

Meanwhile, the usage of small cell is getting grown in many fieldsnowadays, such as pico cells, small cells under dual connectivity, etc.To properly perform communication between the small cells and UEs,improvements related to conventional control signals, such as referencesignals and synchronous signals, have been discussed

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

Recently, a number of issues regarding a discovery reference signal(DRS) have been discussed. An object of the present specification is toprovide a method and apparatus for providing an advanced scheme tosupport the DRS in a wireless communication. In detail, the presentspecification proposes detailed embodiments related to candidates whichcan be used as DRS. Further, the present specification proposes aclarification and/or embodiment with respect to alignment between ameasurement gap and the DRS. Further, the present specification proposesan embodiment of configurations related to measurement timing of theDRS. In such embodiment, detailed configuration elements are defined pereach frequency, which is corresponding to a cell. The presentspecification proposes a clarification and/or embodiment with respect tomisalignment with respect to a number of cells. The presentspecification also proposes a clarification and/or embodiment withrespect to enhanced Interference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation(eIMTA), which dynamically changes Time Division Duplex (TDD)configuration in the context of DRS operations.

With respect to the above-mentioned objects of the presentspecification, it should be noted that the present specification nowproposes a number of additional features and the above-mentioned objectsare introduced for exemplary purposes, and thus the objects of thepresent specification are not limited to the foregoing objects.

Technical Solution

An embodiment of the present specification is to provide a method ofreceiving control information for receiving a signal in a wirelesscommunication system, the method performed by a user equipment (UE).Further, the present specification also proposes a wireless device,e.g., UE, to perform the proposed method.

Preferably, the UE is configured for receiving measurement configurationfor a discovery signal, wherein the discovery signal includes acell-specific reference signal (CRS), a primary synchronization signal(PSS), and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS).

In addition, the discovery signal may further include a channel statusinformation-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on a configuration ofthe CSI-RS.

The measurement configuration may include at least one set ofconfiguration elements, each set of the configuration elements beingdefined per a frequency of a corresponding cell. In detail, the each setof the configuration elements indicates a measurement period of thediscovery signal, an offset of the measurement period, and a measurementduration during which the UE measures the discovery signal in one periodof the measurement period.

Preferably, the measurement configuration for a discovery signal isreceived via a radio resource control (RRC) message. Moreover, the RRCmessage is received at the UE being in an RRC connected mode. Themeasurement on the discovery signal starts on a first subframe carryingthe SSS in one period of the measurement period. Further, a set of theconfiguration elements defined for one frequency contains a singlemeasurement period, a single offset, and a single measurement duration.The each set of the configuration elements is applied to a plurality ofcells having a same frequency.

The UE is configured for performing a measurement on the discoverysignal based on the measurement period of the discovery signal, theoffset of the measurement period, and the measurement duration.

Additionally, the UE may further comprising: receiving measurement gapconfiguration indicating a length and a repetition period of ameasurement gap, wherein the measurement period of the discovery signalis set to be a multiple of the repetition period of a measurement gap.

Additionally, the UE's measurement on the discovery signal is onlyperformed on a TDD downlink subframe allocated by SIB when an enhancedInterference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA) is used for the UE.

Additionally, the UE may further comprising receiving channel statusinformation-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration including at leastone set of CSI-RS configuration elements used for a zero power CSI RS.The CSI-RS configuration includes a plurality set of CSI-RSconfiguration elements, each set of CSI-RS configuration elementsincludes CSI-RS interval information and CSI-RS offset information, andeach set of CSI-RS configuration elements is separately configured.

Additionally, the UE expecting to receive MBMS subframe(s) and/or MBMSservice may not expect to receive discovery signal in a correspondingsubframe.

When performing the above embodiments, a system frame number (SFN) of amacro cell of the UE is used as a reference for a duration where the UEperforms the measurement on the discovery signal.

Advantageous Effects

According to the present specification, an advanced example clarifyingcandidates which can be used as DRS is proposed. Further, an advancedexample clarifying alignment between a measurement gap and the DRS isproposed in the present specification. Further, an advanced examplerelated configuration related to measurement timing of the DRS isproposed. Further, an advanced example related to configuration relatedto measurement timing of the DRS is proposed. Further, an advancedexample with respect to misalignment with respect to a number of cellsis proposed. Also, an advanced example related to the eIMTA is proposedin the present specification.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a wireless communication system to which the presentspecification is applied.

FIG. 2 shows an exemplary concept for a carrier aggregation (CA)technology according to an exemplary embodiment of the presentspecification.

FIG. 3 shows a structure of a radio frame to which the presentspecification is applied.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a synchronization signal which is used in abasic CP and an extended CP.

FIG. 5 shows a scheme of generating a code related to a sub-synchronoussignal (SSS).

FIG. 6 shows an example of a multi-node system.

FIG. 7 shows one example of a pattern in which a CRS is mapped to an RBwhen a base station uses a single antenna port.

FIG. 8 shows one example of a pattern in which a CRS is mapped to an RBwhen a base station uses two antenna ports.

FIG. 9 shows one example of a pattern in which a CRS is mapped to an RBwhen a base station uses four antenna ports.

FIG. 10 shows an example of an RB to which a CSI-RS is mapped.

FIG. 11 shows an example of UE measurement performed on the DRSaccording to one example of the present specification.

FIG. 12 shows an example of PSS/SSS time-divisional multiplexing.

FIG. 13 shows another example of PSS/SSS time-divisional multiplexing.

FIG. 14 shows candidate locations of DRS-PSS and DRS-SSS according toone aspect of the present specification.

FIG. 15 shows a DRS RS pattern based on CRS according to the presentspecification.

FIG. 16 shows a number of measurement gap configurations proposed by thepresent specification.

FIG. 17 shows an additional embodiments related to measurement gapconfigurations proposed by the present specification.

FIG. 18 shows the relationship between UE measurement on DRS andmeasurement gap.

FIG. 19 shows a block diagram which briefly describes a wirelesscommunication system including an UE 1900 and a BS or cell 2000.

MODE FOR INVENTION

FIG. 1 shows a wireless communication system to which the presentspecification is applied. The wireless communication system may also bereferred to as an evolved-UMTS terrestrial radio access network(E-UTRAN) or a long term evolution (LTE)/LTE-A system.

The E-UTRAN includes at least one base station (BS) 20 which provides acontrol plane and a user plane to an user equipment (UE) 10. The UE 10may be fixed or mobile, and may be referred to as another terminology,such as a mobile station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a subscriberstation (SS), a mobile terminal (MT), a wireless device, etc. The BS 20is generally a fixed station that communicates with the UE 10 and may bereferred to as another terminology, such as an evolved node-B (eNB), abase transceiver system (BTS), an access point, a cell, node-B, or nodeetc.

Multi-access schemes applied to the wireless communication system arenot limited. Namely, various multi-access schemes such as CDMA (CodeDivision Multiple Access), TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), FDMA(Frequency Division Multiple Access), OFDMA (Orthogonal FrequencyDivision Multiple Access), SC-FDMA (Single Carrier-FDMA), OFDM-FDMA,OFDM-TDMA, OFDM-CDMA, or the like, may be used. For uplink transmissionand downlink transmission, a TDD (Time Division Duplex) scheme in whichtransmission is made by using a different time or an FDD (FrequencyDivision Duplex) scheme in which transmission is made by using differentfrequencies may be used.

The BSs 20 are interconnected by means of an X2 interface. The BSs 20are also connected by means of an S1 interface to an evolved packet core(EPC) 30, more specifically, to a mobility management entity (MME)through S1-MME and to a serving gateway (S-GW) through S1-U.

The EPC 30 includes an MME, an S-GW, and a packet data network-gateway(P-GW). The MME has access information of the UE or capabilityinformation of the UE, and such information is generally used formobility management of the UE. The S-GW is a gateway having an E-UTRANas an end point. The P-GW is a gateway having a PDN as an end point.

Layers of a radio interface protocol between the UE and the network canbe classified into a first layer (L1), a second layer (L2), and a thirdlayer (L3) based on the lower three layers of the open systeminterconnection (OSI) model that is well-known in the communicationsystem. Among them, a physical (PHY) layer belonging to the first layerprovides an information transfer service by using a physical channel,and a radio resource control (RRC) layer belonging to the third layerserves to control a radio resource between the UE and the network. Forthis, the RRC layer exchanges an RRC message between the UE and the BS.

More details, radio protocol architecture for a user plane (U-plane) anda control plane (C-plane) are explained. A PHY layer provides an upperlayer with an information transfer service through a physical channel.The PHY layer is connected to a medium access control (MAC) layer whichis an upper layer of the PHY layer through a transport channel. Data istransferred between the MAC layer and the PHY layer through thetransport channel. The transport channel is classified according to howand with what characteristics data is transferred through a radiointerface. Between different PHY layers, i.e., a PHY layer of atransmitter and a PHY layer of a receiver, data are transferred throughthe physical channel. The physical channel may be modulated using anorthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and mayutilize time and frequency as a radio resource.

Functions of the MAC layer include mapping between a logical channel anda transport channel and multiplexing/de-multiplexing on a transportblock provided to a physical channel over a transport channel of a MACservice data unit (SDU) belonging to the logical channel. The MAC layerprovides a service to a radio link control (RLC) layer through thelogical channel.

Functions of the RLC layer include RLC SDU concatenation, segmentation,and reassembly. To ensure a variety of quality of service (QoS) requiredby a radio bearer (RB), the RLC layer provides three operation modes,i.e., a transparent mode (TM), an unacknowledged mode (UM), and anacknowledged mode (AM). The AM RLC provides error correction by using anautomatic repeat request (ARQ).

Functions of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer in the userplane include user data delivery, header compression, and ciphering.Functions of a PDCP layer in the control plane include control-planedata delivery and ciphering/integrity protection.

A radio resource control (RRC) layer is defined only in the controlplane. The RRC layer serves to control the logical channel, thetransport channel and the physical channel in association withconfiguration, reconfiguration and release of radio bearers (RBs). An RBis a logical path provided by the first layer (i.e., the PHY layer) andthe second layer (i.e., the MAC layer, the RLC layer, and the PDCPlayer) for data delivery between the UE and the network.

The setup of the RB implies a process for specifying a radio protocollayer and channel properties to provide a particular service and fordetermining respective detailed parameters and operations. The RB can beclassified into two types, i.e., a signaling RB (SRB) and a data RB(DRB). The SRB is used as a path for transmitting an RRC message in thecontrol plane. The DRB is used as a path for transmitting user data inthe user plane.

When an RRC connection is established between an RRC layer of the UE andan RRC layer of the network, the UE is in an RRC connected state (it mayalso be referred to as an RRC connected mode), and otherwise the UE isin an RRC idle state (it may also be referred to as an RRC idle mode).

FIG. 2 shows an exemplary concept for a carrier aggregation (CA)technology according to an exemplary embodiment of the presentspecification.

Referring to FIG. 2, the downlink (DL)/uplink (UL) subframe structureconsidered in 3GPP LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) system where multiple CCs areaggregated (in this example, 3 carriers exist) is illustrated, a UE canmonitor and receive DL signal/data from multiple DL CCs at the sametime. However, even if a cell is managing N DL CCs, the network mayconfigure a UE with M DL CCs, where M≤N so that the UE's monitoring ofthe DL signal/data is limited to those M DL CCs. In addition, thenetwork may configure L DL CCs as the main DL CCs from which the UEshould monitor/receive DL signal/data with a priority, eitherUE-specifically or cell-specifically, where L≤M≤N. So the UE may supportone or more carriers (Carrier 1 or more Carriers 2 . . . N) according toUE's capability thereof.

A Carrier or a cell may be divided into a primary component carrier(PCC) and a secondary component carrier (SCC) depending on whether ornot they are activated. A PCC is always activated, and an SCC isactivated or deactivated according to particular conditions. That is, aPCell (primary serving cell) is a resource in which the UE initiallyestablishes a connection (or a RRC connection) among several servingcells. The PCell serves as a connection (or RRC connection) forsignaling with respect to a plurality of cells (CCs), and is a specialCC for managing UE context which is connection information related tothe UE. Further, when the PCell (PCC) establishes the connection withthe UE and thus is in an RRC connected mode, the PCC always exists in anactivation state. A SCell (secondary serving cell) is a resourceassigned to the UE other than the PCell (PCC). The SCell is an extendedcarrier for additional resource assignment, etc., in addition to thePCC, and can be divided into an activation state and a deactivationstate. The SCell is initially in the deactivation state. If the SCell isdeactivated, it includes not transmit sounding reference signal (SRS) onthe SCell, not report channel-quality indicator (CQI)/precoding matrixindicator (PMI)/rank indicator (RD/procedure transaction identifier(PTI) for the SCell, not transmit on UL-SCH on the SCell, not monitorthe PDCCH on the SCell, not monitor the PDCCH for the SCell. The UEreceives an Activation/Deactivation MAC control element in this TTIactivating or deactivating the SCell.

To enhance the user throughput, it is also considered to allowinter-node resource aggregation over more than one eNB/node where a UEmay be configured with more than one carrier groups. It is configuredPCell per each carrier group which particularly may not be deactivated.In other words, PCell per each carrier group may maintain its state toactive all the time once it is configured to a UE. In that case, servingcell index i corresponding to a PCell in a carrier group which does notinclude serving cell index 0 which is a master PCell cannot be used foractivation/deactivation.

More particularly, if serving cell index 0, 1, 2 are configured by onecarrier group whereas serving cell index 3, 4, 5 are configured by theother carrier group in two carrier group scenarios where serving cellindex 0 is PCell and serving cell index 3 is the PCell of the secondcarrier group, then only bits corresponding 1 and 2 are assumed to bevalid for the first carrier group cell activation/deactivation messageswhereas bits corresponding 4 and 5 are assumed to be valid for thesecond carrier group cell activation/deactivation. To make somedistinction between PCell for the first carrier group and the secondcarrier group, the PCell for the second carrier group can be noted asS-PCell hereinafter. Herein, the index of the serving cell may be alogical index determined relatively for each UE, or may be a physicalindex for indicating a cell of a specific frequency band. The CA systemsupports a non-cross carrier scheduling of self-carrier scheduling, orcross carrier scheduling.

FIG. 3 shows a structure of a radio frame to which the presentspecification is applied.

Referring to FIG. 3, a radio frame includes 10 subframes, and onesubframe includes two slots. The time taken for one subframe to betransmitted is called a Transmission Time Interval (TTI). For example,the length of one subframe may be 1 ms, and the length of one slot maybe 0.5 ms.

One slot includes a plurality of OFDM symbols in the time domain andincludes a plurality of Resource Blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain.An OFDM symbol is for representing one symbol period because downlinkOFDMA is used in 3GPP LTE system and it may be called an SC-FDMA symbolor a symbol period depending on a multi-access scheme. An RB is aresource allocation unit, and it includes a plurality of contiguoussubcarriers in one slot. The number of OFDM symbols included in one slotmay vary according to the configuration of the CP (Cyclic Prefix). TheCP includes an extended CP and a normal CP. For example, if normal CPcase, the OFDM symbol is composed by 7. If configured by the extendedCP, it includes 6 OFDM symbols in one slot. If the channel status isunstable such as moving at a fast pace UE, the extended CP can beconfigured to reduce an inter-symbol interference. Herein, the structureof the radio frame is only illustrative, and the number of subframesincluded in a radio frame, or the number of slots included in asubframe, and the number of OFDM symbols included in a slot may bechanged in various ways to apply new communication system. Thisspecification has no limitation to adapt to other system by varying thespecific feature and the embodiment of the specification can apply withchangeable manners to a corresponding system.

The downlink slot includes a plurality of OFDM symbols in the timedomain. For example, one downlink slot is illustrated as including 7OFDMA symbols and one Resource Block (RB) is illustrated as including 12subcarriers in the frequency domain, but not limited thereto. Eachelement on the resource grid is called a Resource Element (RE). Oneresource block includes 12×7 (or 6) REs. The number NDL of resourceblocks included in a downlink slot depends on a downlink transmissionbandwidth that is set in a cell. Bandwidths that are taken into accountin LTE are 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz, 5 MHz, 10 MHz, 15 MHz, and 20 MHz. If thebandwidths are represented by the number of resource blocks, they are 6,15, 25, 50, 75, and 100, respectively.

The former 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 OFDM symbols of the first slot within thesubframe correspond to a control region to be assigned with a controlchannel, and the remaining OFDM symbols thereof become a data region towhich a physical downlink shared chancel (PDSCH) is allocated. Examplesof downlink control channels include a Physical Control Format IndicatorChannel (PCFICH), a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), and aPhysical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH).

The PCFICH transmitted in a 1st OFDM symbol of the subframe carries acontrol format indicator (CFI) regarding the number of OFDM symbols(i.e., a size of the control region) used for transmission of controlchannels in the subframe, that is, carries information regarding thenumber of OFDM symbols used for transmission of control channels withinthe subframe. The UE first receives the CFI on the PCFICH, andthereafter monitors the PDCCH.

The PHICH carries acknowledgement (ACK)/not-acknowledgement (NACK)signals in response to an uplink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ).That is, ACK/NACK signals for uplink data that has been transmitted by aUE are transmitted on a PHICH.

A PDCCH (or ePDCCH) is a downlink physical channel, a PDCCH can carryinformation about the resource allocation and transmission format of aDownlink Shared Channel (DL-SCH), information about the resourceallocation of an Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH), paging informationabout a Paging Channel (PCH), system information on a DL-SCH,information about the resource allocation of a higher layer controlmessage, such as a random access response transmitted on a PDSCH, a setof transmit power control commands for UEs within a certain UE group,the activation of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), etc. Aplurality of PDCCHs may be transmitted within the control region, and aUE can monitor a plurality of PDCCHs. The PDCCH is transmitted on oneControl Channel Element (CCE) or on an aggregation of some contiguousCCEs. A CCE is a logical assignment unit for providing a coding rateaccording to the state of a radio channel to a PDCCH. The CCEcorresponds to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs). A formatof the PDCCH and the number of bits of the available PDCCH aredetermined according to a correlation between the number of CCEs and thecoding rate provided by the CCEs.

The wireless communication system of the present specification usesblind decoding for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) detection.The blind decoding is a scheme in which a desired identifier isde-masked from a CRC of a PDCCH to determine whether the PDCCH is itsown channel by performing CRC error checking. An eNB determines a PDCCHformat according to a Downlink Control Information (DCI) to betransmitted to a UE. Thereafter, the eNB attaches a cyclic redundancycheck (CRC) to the DCI, and masks a unique identifier (referred to as aradio network temporary identifier (RNTI)) to the CRC according to anowner or usage of the PDCCH. For example, if the PDCCH is for a specificUE, a unique identifier (e.g., cell-RNTI (C-RNTI)) of the UE may bemasked to the CRC. Alternatively, if the PDCCH is for a paging message,a paging indicator identifier (e.g., paging-RNTI (e.g., P-RNTI)) may bemasked to the CRC. If the PDCCH is for system information (morespecifically, a system information block (SIB) to be described below), asystem information identifier and system information RNTI (e.g.,SI-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC. To indicate a random access responsethat is a response for transmission of a random access preamble of theUE, a random access-RNTI (e.g., RA-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC.

Thus, the BS determines a PDCCH format according to a Downlink ControlInformation (DCI) to be transmitted to the UE, and attaches a cyclicredundancy check (CRC) to control information. The DCI includes uplinkor downlink scheduling information or includes an uplink transmit (TX)power control command for arbitrary UE groups. The DCI is differentlyused depending on its format, and it also has a different field that isdefined within the DCI.

Meanwhile, an uplink subframe may be divided into a control region towhich a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) that carries uplinkcontrol information is allocated; the control information includes anACK/NACK response of downlink transmission. A data region to whichphysical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) that carries user data isallocated in the frequency domain.

Hereinafter, technical features related to synchronization signals usedin wireless communication system to which the present specification isapplied.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a synchronization signal which is used in abasic CP and an extended CP.

The synchronization signal may be divided into a primary SS (PSS) and asecondary SS (SSS) depending on the role and structure thereof. Asillustrated in FIG. 4, when the basic CP and the extended CP are used,PSS/SSS is included in the preset subframe. Specifically, thesynchronization signals (SS) are respectively transmitted from thesecond slots of subframe 0 and subframe 5 in consideration of the GSMframe length 4.6 ms, and the boundary for the radio frame may bedetected through the SSS. The PSS is transmitted in the last OFDM symbolof the slot, and the SSS is transmitted in the OFDM symbol right beforethe PSS. The SS may transmit a total of 504 physical cell IDs throughthe combination of 3 PSSs and 168 SSSs. Further, the SS and the PBCH aretransmitted within central 6 RBs within the system bandwidth so that theUE may be detected or decoded regardless of the transmission bandwidth.

The detailed operation related with the PSS will be described below.

Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence of length 63 is defined in the frequency domainand is used as the sequence of the PSS. The ZC sequence is defined byformula 1 below, and the sequence element corresponding to the DCsubcarrier, n=31, is punctured. In the formula 1 below, Nzc=63.d_u(n)=e{circumflex over ( )}(−jπun(n+1)/N_ZC)  [Math Figure 1]

9 remaining subcarriers among central 6 RBs (=72 subcarriers) are alwaystransmitted with the value 0 and make the filter design forsynchronization easy. In order to define a total of 3 PSSs, in formula1, u=25, 29, and 34 are used.

At this time, 29 and 34 have the conjugate symmetry relation and thustwo correlations may be simultaneously performed. Here, the conjugatesymmetry refers to the relation of formula 2 (the first formula is whenNzc is an even number, and the second formula is when Nzc is an oddnumber), and the one shot correlator for u=29 and 34 may be implementedby using this characteristic, and the overall amount of operations maybe reduced by about 33.3%.d _(u)(n)=(−1)^(n)(d _(N) _(zc) _(-u)(n))*d _(u)(n)=(d _(N) _(zc) _(-u)(n))*  [Math Figure 2]

The detailed operation related with SSS will be described below.

FIG. 5 shows a scheme of generating a code related to a sub-synchronoussignal (SSS).

The sequence, which is used for SSS, performs interleaved joining of twom-sequences of length 31 and combines the two sequences so as totransmit 168 cell group ids. The m-sequence as the sequence of the SSSis strong in the frequency selective environment, and the amount ofoperations may be reduced by a high speed m-sequence conversion whichuses the fast Hadamard transformation. Furthermore, configuring SSS withtwo short codes has been suggested to reduce the amount of operations ofthe UE.

FIG. 5 shows that two sequences in the logical region are interleaved inthe physical region so as to be mapped. When two m-sequences, which areused for generation of SSS code, are defined as S1 and S2, if the SSS ofsubframe 0 transmits the cell group ID with (S1, S2) combination, SSS ofsubframe 5 swapped with (S2, S2) so as to be transmitted, and thus 10 msframe boundary may be distinguished. At this time, the used SSS codeuses a polynomial of x⁵+x²+1, and may generate a total of 31 codesthrough different circular shifts.

In order to enhance the receiving performance, the PSS-based twodifferent sequences are defined so as to be scrambled to the SSS and arescrambled to different sequences to S1 and S2. Thereafter, S1-basedscrambling code is defined, and scrambling is performed in S2. At thistime, the code of the SSS is exchanged in 5 ms units, but the PSS-basedscrambling code is not exchanged. The PSS-based scrambling code isdefined as 6 circular shifts version according to the PSS index in them-sequence which is generated from the polynomial of x⁵+x³+1, andS1-based scrambling code is defined as 8 circular shifts versionaccording to the index of S1 in the m-sequence which is generated fromthe polynomial of x⁵+x⁴+x²+x¹+1.

Hereinafter, the concept of multi-node system, which is associated withcoordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission scheme, is explained indetail.

To improve a performance of the wireless communication system, atechnique is evolved in a direction of increasing density of nodescapable of accessing to an area around a user. A wireless communicationsystem having nodes with higher density can provide a higher performancethrough cooperation between the nodes.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a multi-node system.

Referring to FIG. 6, a multi-node system 20 may consist of one BS 21 anda plurality of nodes 25-1, 25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5. The plurality ofnodes 25-1, 25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5 may be managed by one BS 21. Thatis, the plurality of nodes 25-1, 25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5 operate asif they are a part of one cell. In this case, each of the nodes 25-1,25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5 may be allocated a separate node identifier(ID), or may operate as if it is a part of an antenna group without anadditional node ID. In this case, the multi-node system 20 of FIG. 6 maybe regarded as a distributed multi node system (DMNS) which constitutesone cell.

Alternatively, the plurality of nodes 25-1, 25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5may have separate cell IDs and perform a handover (HO) and scheduling ofthe UE. In this case, the multi-node system 20 of FIG. 6 may be regardedas a multi-cell system. The BS 21 may be a macro cell. Each node may bea femto cell or pico cell having cell coverage smaller than cellcoverage of a macro cell. As such, if a plurality of cells is configuredin an overlaid manner according to coverage, it may be called amulti-tier network.

In FIG. 6, each of the nodes 25-1, 25-2, 25-3, 25-4, and 25-5 may be anyone of a BS, a Node-B, an eNode-B, a pico cell eNB (PeNB), a home eNB(HeNB), a remote radio head (RRH), a relay station (RS) or repeater, anda distributed antenna. At least one antenna may be installed in onenode. In addition, the node may be called a point. In the followingdescriptions, a node implies an antenna group separated by more than aspecific interval in a DMNS. That is, it is assumed in the followingdescriptions that each node implies an RRH in a physical manner.However, the present specification is not limited thereto, and the nodemay be defined as any antenna group irrespective of a physical interval.For example, the present specification may be applied by consideringthat a node consisting of horizontal polarized antennas and a nodeconsisting of vertical polarized antennas constitute a BS consisting ofa plurality of cross polarized antennas. In addition, the presentspecification may be applied to a case where each node is a pico cell orfemto cell having smaller cell coverage than a macro cell, that is, to amulti-cell system. In the following descriptions, an antenna may bereplaced with an antenna port, virtual antenna, antenna group, as wellas a physical antenna.

A coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission means a cooperativecommunication scheme between nodes. In a multi-cell distributedmulti-node system, inter-cell interference may be reduced by applyingthe CoMP transmission. In a single cell distributed multi-node system,intra-cell inter-point interference may be reduced by applying the CoMPtransmission. A UE may receive data from a plurality of nodes in commonby performing the CoMP transmission. Further, each node maysimultaneously support at least one UE by using the same radio frequencyresource in order to improve a performance of a system. In addition, thebase station may perform a space division multiple access (SDMA) schemebased on state information of a channel between the base station and theUE.

A main purpose of the CoMP transmission is to improve communicationperformances of UEs located at cell boundary or node boundary. In 3GPPLTE, CoMP transmission scheme may be classified into two schemes.

1) Joint processing (JP) scheme: JP scheme is a scheme of transmittingdata, which is shared by at least one node, for the UE. The JP schemeincludes a joint transmission (JT) scheme and a dynamic point selection(DPS) scheme. The JP scheme is a scheme where a plurality of nodessimultaneously transmits data to one UE or a plurality of UEs intime-frequency resources. The plurality of nodes transmitting the datamay be all or a part of a group capable of performing the CoMPtransmission. The data may be transmitted coherently or non-coherently.Accordingly, quality of a received signal and/or a data throughput maybe improved. The DSP scheme is a scheme where one node in a groupcapable of performing the CoMP transmission transmits data intime-frequency resources. In the DSP scheme, even if the data can betransmitted by a plurality of nodes simultaneously, but one nodeselected from the plurality of nodes transmit the data. A nodetransmitting the data or a muting node which does not transmit the datamay be changed in a subframe unit. Further, an RB pair used in asubframe may be also changed. The DSP scheme may include a dynamic cellselection (DCS) scheme.

2) Coordinated scheduling (CS)/coordinated beamforming (CB) scheme:CS/CB scheme is a scheme in which only one serving node can transmitdata and the remaining nodes coordinate with the serving node throughscheduling or by reducing interference of a transmission beam, due to aproblem such as a limited backhaul capacity. The CS/CB scheme includes asemi-static point selection (SSPS) scheme. The SSPS scheme is a schemein which one node transmits data to a specific UE in a specific time.The node transmitting the data may be changed by a semi-static scheme.

Hereinafter, the concept of quasi co-location (QCL) is described.

In the CoMP situation in which one UE receives a downlink channel from aplurality of transmission points, the UE may receive a specific evolvedPDCCH (EPDCCH) or a PDSCH scheduled by the EPDCCH from a specifictransmission point via specific time resources and/or specific frequencyresources or receive an EPDCCH or a PDSCH scheduled by the EPDCCH fromanother transmission point via other time resources and/or otherfrequency resources. At this time, if the UE can determine from whichtransmission point the channel is transmitted, channel receptionperformance can be improved using several attributes observed from thetransmission point, e.g., large scale properties such as Doppler spread,Doppler shift, average delay, delay spread or average gain.

The eNB may signal the transmission point, from which a specific EPDCCHor a PDSCH scheduled by the specific EPDCCH are transmitted. As anexample, the eNB may notify the UE that a specific EPDCCH or a PDSCHscheduled by the specific EPDCCH are quasi co-located (QCL) with aspecific reference signal such as a CRS or a CSI-RS consistentlytransmitted by a specific transmission point. Here, QCL may mean thatthe channel has the same channel attributes as the specific referencesignal in the long term. If information about QCL is not provided, theUE may assume that all channels are transmitted from a serving cell andare QCL with the CRS of the serving cell.

Accordingly, resource mapping of a specific EPDCCH or a PDSCH scheduledby the specific EPDCCH and transmission of other control channels suchas a PCFICH, a PHICH and a PDCCH are selectively applicable depending onwith which RS the channel is QCL.

Hereinafter, the detailed features related to reference signals (RSs)are described.

In general, a reference signal is transmitted as a sequence. Anysequence may be used as a sequence used for an RS sequence withoutparticular restrictions. The RS sequence may be a phase shift keying(PSK)-based computer generated sequence. Examples of the PSK includebinary phase shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK),etc. Alternatively, the RS sequence may be a constant amplitude zeroauto-correlation (CAZAC) sequence. Examples of the CAZAC sequenceinclude a Zadoff-Chu (ZC)-based sequence, a ZC sequence with cyclicextension, a ZC sequence with truncation, etc. Alternatively, the RSsequence may be a pseudo-random (PN) sequence. Examples of the PNsequence include an m-sequence, a computer generated sequence, a Goldsequence, a Kasami sequence, etc. In addition, the RS sequence may be acyclically shifted sequence.

A downlink RS may be classified into a cell-specific reference signal(CRS), a multimedia broadcast and multicast single frequency network(MBSFN) reference signal, a UE-specific reference signal, a positioningreference signal (PRS), and a channel state information reference signal(CSI RS). The CRS is an RS transmitted to all UEs in a cell, and is usedin channel measurement for a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedbackand channel estimation for a PDSCH. The MBSFN reference signal may betransmitted in a subframe allocated for MBSFN transmission. TheUE-specific RS is an RS received by a specific UE or a specific UE groupin the cell, and may also be called a demodulation reference signal(DMRS). The DMRS is primarily used for data demodulation of a specificUE or a specific UE group. The PRS may be used for location estimationof the UE. The CSI RS is used for channel estimation for a PDSCH of aLTE-A UE. The CSI RS is relatively sparsely deployed in a frequencydomain or a time domain, and may be punctured in a data region of anormal subframe or an MBSFN subframe. If required, a channel qualityindicator (CQI), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a rank indicator(RI), etc., may be reported from the UE through CSI estimation.

A CRS is transmitted from all of downlink subframes within a cellsupporting PDSCH transmission. The CRS may be transmitted throughantenna ports 0 to 3 and may be defined only for Δf=15 kHz. The CRS maybe referred to Section 6.10.1 of 3rd generation partnership project(3GPP) TS 36.211 V10.1.0 (2011-03) “Technical Specification Group RadioAccess Network: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA):Physical channels and modulation (Release 8).”

FIG. 7 shows one example of a pattern in which a CRS is mapped to an RBwhen a base station uses a single antenna port. FIG. 8 shows one exampleof a pattern in which a CRS is mapped to an RB when a base station usestwo antenna ports. FIG. 9 shows one example of a pattern in which a CRSis mapped to an RB when a base station uses four antenna ports. The CRSpatterns may be used to support features of the LTE-A. For example, theCRS patterns may be used to support coordinated multi-point (CoMP)transmission/reception technique, spatial multiplexing, etc. Also, theCRS may be used for channel quality measurement, CP detection,time/frequency synchronization, etc.

Referring to FIGS. 7 to 9, in case the base station carries out multipleantenna transmission using a plurality of antenna ports, one resourcegrid is allocated to each antenna port. “R0” represents a referencesignal for a first antenna port. “R1” represents a reference signal fora second antenna port. “R2” represents a reference signal for a thirdantenna port. “R3” represents a reference signal for a fourth antennaport. Positions of R0 to R3 within a subframe do not overlap with eachother. l, representing the position of an OFDM symbol within a slot, maytake a value ranging from 0 to 6 in a normal CP. In one OFDM symbol, areference signal for each antenna port is placed apart by an interval ofsix subcarriers. The number of R0 and the number of R1 in a subframe arethe same to each other while the number of R2 and the number of R3 arethe same to each other. The number of R2 or R3 within a subframe issmaller than the number of R0 or R1. A resource element used for areference signal of one antenna port is not used for a reference signalof another antenna port. This is intended to avoid generatinginterference among antenna ports.

The CRSs are always transmitted as many as the number of antenna portsregardless of the number of streams. The CRS has a separate referencesignal for each antenna port. The frequency domain position and timedomain position of the CRS within a subframe are determined regardlessof UEs. The CRS sequence multiplied to the CRS is also generatedregardless of UEs. Therefore, all of UEs within a cell may receive theCRS. However, it should be noted that the CRS position within a subframeand the CRS sequence may be determined according to cell IDs. The timedomain position of the CRS within a subframe may be determined accordingto an antenna port number and the number of OFDM symbols within aresource block. The frequency domain position of the CRS within asubframe may be determined according to an antenna port number, cell ID,OFDM symbol index (l), a slot number within a radio frame, etc.

A two-dimensional CRS sequence may be generated by multiplicationbetween symbols of a two-dimensional orthogonal sequence and symbols ofa two-dimensional pseudo-random sequence. There may be three differenttwo-dimensional orthogonal sequences and 170 different two-dimensionalpseudo-random sequences. Each cell ID corresponds to a uniquecombination of one orthogonal sequence and one pseudo-random sequence.In addition, frequency hopping may be applied to the CRS. The period offrequency hopping pattern may be one radio frame (10 ms), and eachfrequency hopping pattern corresponds to one cell identity group.

A CSI RS is transmitted through one, two, four, or eight antenna ports.The antenna ports used for each case is p=15, p=15, 16, p=15, . . . ,18, and p=15, . . . , 22, respectively. The CSI RS may be defined onlyΔf=15 kHz. The CSI RS may be referred to Section 6.10.5 of the 3rdgeneration partnership project (3GPP) TS 36.211 V10.1.0 (2011-03)“Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved UniversalTerrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA): Physical channels and modulation(Release 8).”

A CSI RS sequences may be based on a pseudo-random sequence which isgenerated from a seed based on a cell ID. Regarding transmission of theCSI RS, a maximum of 32 configurations different from each other may betaken into account to reduce inter-cell interference (ICI) in amulti-cell environment, including a heterogeneous network (HetNet)environment. The CSI RS configuration is varied according to the numberof antenna ports within a cell and CP, and neighboring cells may havethe most different configurations. Also, the CSI RS configuration may bedivided into two types depending on a frame structure. The two typesinclude a type applied to both of FDD frame and TDD frame and a typeapplied only to the TDD frame. A plurality of CSI RS configurations maybe used for one cell. For those UEs assuming non-zero power CSI RS, 0 or1 CSI configuration may be used. For those UEs assuming zero-power CSIRS, 0 or more CSI configurations may be used.

Configuration of the CSI RS may be indicated by a higher layer, such asRadio Resource Control (RRC) signalling. In detail, CSI-RS-Configinformation element (IE) transmitted via the higher layer may indicatethe CSI RS configuration.

The higher layer signalling can further define the period and the offsetof the subframe in which the CSI RS is transmitted may be determinedaccording to the CSI RS subframe configuration.

FIG. 10 shows an example of an RB to which a CSI-RS is mapped. Indetail, FIG. 10 shows resource elements used for the CSI-RS in a normalCP structure when CSI RS configuration index is zero. Rp denotesresource elements used for CSI-RS transmission on an antenna port p.Referring to FIG. 10, the CSI-RS for an antenna port 15 and 16 aretransmitted through resource elements corresponding to a thirdsubcarrier (subcarrier index 2) of a sixth and seventh OFDM symbol (OFDMsymbol index 5, 6) of a first slot. The CSI-RS for an antenna port 17and 18 is transmitted through resource elements corresponding to a ninthsubcarrier (subcarrier index 8) of a sixth and seventh OFDM symbol (OFDMsymbol index 5, 6) of the first slot. The CSI-RS for an antenna port 19and 20 is transmitted through the same resource elements as the CSI-RSfor an antenna port 15 and 16 is transmitted. The CSI-RS for an antennaport 21 and 22 is transmitted through the same resource elements as theCSI-RS for an antenna port 17 and 18 is transmitted.

Hereinafter, detailed features related to a discover reference signal(DRS), which is associated with the above-explained small cells, areintroduced. Namely, the following portions of the specification proposevarious features related to DRS, which is also referred to as adiscovery signal, or advanced discovery signal. For instance, thepresent specification proposes detailed embodiments related tocandidates which can be used as DRS. Further, the present specificationproposes an embodiment with respect to alignment between a measurementgap and the DRS, an embodiment related to configuration related tomeasurement timing of the DRS, an embodiment with respect tomisalignment between a number of cells, an embodiment with respect toenhanced Interference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA), whichdynamically changes Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration in thecontext of DRS operations.

Here, a number of desired characteristics of the DRS (or interchangeably“advanced discovery signal”) and a number of candidates for the DRS areproposed in detail.

In a dense small cell scenario, it is likely that a UE is connected withan overlaid macro and small cell may be used as for data offloading. Insuch a case, it is desirable for a UE to discover many cells within acommunication range and then the overlaid macro layer selects the bestcell considering “loading” information as well as other information. Inother words, the best cell for data offloading may not be the best cellbased on RSRP/RSRQ. Rather, a cell with low loading or many users may bedesirable from overall cell management perspective. Thus, an advanceddiscovery procedure to allow detecting more cells than conventionalmechanism can be considered.

In terms of desired characteristics of the DRS may include thefollowing:

-   -   detect more cells than legacy PSS/SSS/CRS based cell detection;    -   detect cells in a short time such as in a subframe;    -   perform measurement in a short time such as in a subframe; and    -   support necessary measurement for fast time scale on/off        operation.

Further, the candidates which can be considered for advanced discoveryalgorithm can include the following:

-   -   PSS/(SSS)+CRS;    -   PSS/(SSS)+CSI-RS;    -   PSS/(SSS)+PRS;    -   PSS+SSS+CRS+(CSI-RS);    -   Combination of one or more options of (1)-(3); and    -   PSS+SSS+CRS+(CSI-RS): in this case, a UE may assume that CSI-RS        is present only if configured with CSI-RS configuration such as        scrambling ID, the resource configurations for CSI-RS, etc. In        other words, a UE may perform transmission point (TP)        identification only if network assistance related to CSI-RS is        configured or the explicitly configured with the presence of        CSI-RS resource.

Although the candidates for the DRS are not limited to a certainexample, it is preferable that the DRS comprises the PSS, SSS, and CRS.Further, the DRS may further comprise CSI-RS depending on the CSI-RSconfiguration (e.g., interval, offset of the CSI-RS).

It is expected that discovery signal (i.e., DRS) should be used forcoarse time/frequency tracking, measurement and Quasi Co-Location (ifnecessary). Considering some of objectives, the design of discoverysignal should meet the following requirements:

(1) Discovery signal should support coarse time synchronization withassumption of very high initial timing error (such as +−2.5 ms);

(2) Discovery signal should support coarse frequency synchronizationwith assumption of very high initial frequency error (such as 20 KHz);

(3) Discovery signal should support the detectability of at least threecells (or transmission points); and

(4) Discovery signal should support sufficient accuracy of measurement.

To support the items (1) and/or (2), it can be assumed that PSS and/orSSS can be transmitted.

In terms of designing discovery signals, the following questions shouldbe answered:

(1) In the same frequency, cells transmitting advanced discovery signaland cells not transmitting advanced discovery signals can coexist ornot;

(2) If a cell transmits advanced discovery signals, it will transmitdiscovery signals in off-state as well as in on-state?;

(3) From a UE measurement reporting perspective, a UE reports bothmeasurement reports based on legacy and advanced discovery signals ifavailable or report only one? When it reports only one, what is thecriteria to select one report?;

(4) Whether a UE can perform measurement based on advanced discoverysignal even in DRX mode ? (A) If this is supported, it may be requiredthat a UE shall wake-up even in DRX cycle (not in OnDuration) to performthe measurement following DRS transmission timing/configuration. Forexample, if DRS is transmitted in every 160 msec, a UE shall wake upevery 160 msec to perform the measurement;

(5) How does multiplexing between discovery signals from different cellswill be performed? Via TDM or FDM or CDM?;

(6) Any active data transmission in subframe where discovery signal istransmitted? Without active data transmission, how to measure RSSI?;

(7) Is there any necessity to increase the number of cell IDs from 504to?;

(8) What if SFN is not aligned among cells transmitting discoverysignals together for efficient UE performance?;

(9) What is CP length is not aligned among cells transmitting discoverysignals together for efficient UE performance?;

(10) What if discovery signal has been scheduled in MBSFN SF?;

(11) Discovery signal transmission period and resource configurationshould be configurable?; and

(12) How to transmit discovery signal in TDD.

For a possible configuration, the periodicity of advanced discoverysignals (i.e., the DRS) can be considered with the followingconstraints:

(1) Multiple of measurement gap period: e.g., 40 msec, 80 msec, or 160msec or 320 msec (if a new measurement gap period is configured,multiple of those new periods can be also considered);

(2) Align with DRX cycle: 10, 20, 32, 40, 64, 80, 128, 160, 256, 320,512, 640, 1024, 1280, 2048, 2560 (this constraint can be eliminated if aUE can measure using legacy signals for the serving cell); and

(3) If PSS/SSS are transmitted in discovery signal, the periodicity ofdiscovery signal may be multiple of 5 msec so that PSS/SSS transmittedfor advanced discovery signal can be replaced by PSS/SSS transmitted inon-state. If discovery signal is not transmitted in on-state, thisconstraint can be eliminated. Or to avoid impact on legacy UE, differentperiodicity not aligned with PSS/SSS can be also considered such thatPSS/SSS can be transmitted during on-state while additional PSS/SSS canbe also transmitted for discovery signal transmission. If DRS-PSS andDRS-SSS are additionally transmitted separately from PSS/SSS transmittedin on-state, the cell ID between DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS can be different fromPSS/SSS. Also, QCL relationship between DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS and PSS/SSS maynot be assumed. In that case, a QCL relationship DRS-CSI-RS (or DRS-CRS)and PSS/SSS and/or CRS can be configured where DRS-CSI-RS can be usedfor PSS/SSS and/or CRS decoding/tracking. In that case, the cell ID usedfor DRS-CSI-RS and PSS/SSS and/or CRS may be assumed to be equal. If thecell ID used for DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS is same to that of PSS/SSS,DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS can be replaced by SSS/SSS if DRS-PSSS/DRS-SSS collidewith PSS/SSS if two collide. Otherwise, PSS/SSS may be dropped when twocollide.

As discussed above, it is preferable the periodicity of the DRS is setto be a multiple of the measurement gap period. In this specification,the “multiple” also includes the same value. Accordingly, if themeasurement gap period is set to 40 ms and one same measurement gapperiod is configured, it is preferable that the periodicity of the DRSis set to one of 40 msec, 80 msec, 160 msec. Based on the presentspecification, UEs may measure the DRS within the measurement gap, andthus the DRS period can be aligned with the measurement gap if theperiodicity of the DRS is set to be a multiple of the measurement gapperiod.

Furthermore, in terms of feasible subframe where discovery signal can betransmitted, both TDD and FDD, MBSFN subframes need to be removed fromthe candidate list. Thus, discovery signal may not be transmitted inMBSFN subframe based on another possible aspect of the presentspecification.

Hereinafter, features related measurement gaps and measurementrequirements for a UE with the DRS are explained in detail.

The motivation of making discovery signal aligned with measurement gapperiod is to allow “same measurement gap” applicable for inter-frequencymeasurement regardless of whether the measurement is based on legacysignal or new discovery signal. Otherwise, a UE may need to beconfigured with two different measurement gap patterns which may not bedesirable due to service interruption and performance impact. When oneor more additional measurement gap are configured to UEs, someconstraints can be considered to limit the same amount of UEinterruption time or not to increase UE service interruption time fromthe current requirement. This can be done in general by increasingmeasurement interval or shorten the measurement gap. This needs to beconsidered from two aspects. One from configuring measurement gaps fordiscovery signals and the other from configuring measurement gap forlegacy discovery signals. Following current RAN4 requirement, a UE isrequired to detect a new FDD cell within the following formula.

$\begin{matrix}{T_{{Identify}_{—}{Inter}} = {{T_{{Basic}_{—}{Identify}_{—}{Inter}} \cdot \frac{480}{T_{{Inter}\; 1}} \cdot N_{freq}}\mspace{14mu}{ms}}} & \left\lbrack {{Math}\mspace{14mu}{{FIG}.\mspace{14mu} 3}} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Where:

T_Basic_Identify_Inter=480 ms. It is the time period used in the interfrequency equation where the maximum allowed time for the UE to identifya new FDD inter-frequency cell is defined.

N_freq is defined in section 8.1.2.1.1 and T_inter1 is defined insection 8.1.2.1 in 3GPP TS 36.133 V10.1.0 (2010-12).

The following table is defined in 3GPP standard documents.

TABLE 1 Minimum available Measurement time for inter- Gap frequency andinter- Gap MeasurementGap Repetition RAT measurements Pattern LengthPeriod during 480 ms period Measurement Id (MGL, ms) (MGRP, ms)(Tinter1, ms) Purpose 0 6 40 60 Inter-Frequency E-UTRAN FDD and TDD,UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD, HRPD, CDMA2000 1x 1 6 80 30 Inter-FrequencyE-UTRAN FDD and TDD, UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD, HRPD, CDMA2000 1x

For example, with measurement gap of 40 msec, a UE should find a newfrequency with 480*480/60*7=480*8*7. In other words, 8 measurements areused for inter-frequency measurement for a frequency where 7 frequenciesare searched. When discovery signal (i.e., DRS) is introduced, a UE maybe expected to perform cell detection by reading one or a few discoverysignals. In that case, the requirement for a UE with discovery signalwould be 480*(480*Number of DRS bursts required for detection/DRSinterval)*N_freq where*N_freq may represent either the number offrequency layer with DRS only or both DRS and CRS.

Namely, when determining UE requirements associated with the measurementlatency on the DRS, the interval of the DRS (i.e., periodicity of theDRS) can be used.

In another aspect of the present specification, the measurement gap canbe defined in the following manners.

When discovery signal is introduced where the measurement gap is notaligned with legacy UE, to meet the service interruption time intact,the requirement on cell detection using legacy signals would need to betailored.

One approach is to use “minimum available time” for inter-frequency forCRS based cell detection or other RAT can be reduced (where themeasurement interval or pattern may also change).

For example, the following table can be proposed in the presentspecification.

TABLE 2 Minimum available Measurement time for inter- Gap frequency andinter- Gap MeasurementGap Repetition RAT measurements Pattern LengthPeriod during 480 ms period Measurement Id (MGL, ms) (MGRP, ms)(Tinter1, ms) Purpose 0 6 40 60 Inter-Frequency E-UTRAN FDD and TDD,UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD, HRPD, CDMA2000 1x 1 6 80 30 Inter-FrequencyE-UTRAN FDD and TDD, UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD, HRPD, CDMA2000 1x 2 6160 15 Inter-Frequency E-UTRAN FDD and TDD, UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD,HRPD, CDMA2000 1x (not based on discovery signal) 3 3 80 15Inter-Frequency E-UTRAN FDD and TDD, UTRAN FDD, GERAN, LCR TDD, HRPD,CDMA2000 1x (not based on discovery signal)

For example, instead of configuring gap pattern 0 or 1 only, new gappatterns can be considered as shown in above where the minimum availabletime used for other procedures than DRS based measurement can be limitedwhich allows the remaining time used for discovery signals. For example,during 480 msec, inter-frequency measurement using discovery signalswould require 6*2 (6 msec measurement gap with 2 times of DRS detection)for a frequency is needed and a UE needs to monitor 3 frequencies withDRS, the total time used for DRS is 12*3=36 msec. Thus, available timefor legacy signal based measurement should be reduced (such as 2 or 3)by either relaxing measurement gap period or measurement gap.

When DRX is configured, the similar requirement is applicable.

Another option to determine requirement with DRS is to use OTDOArequirement as shown in below. In other words, TPRS can be changed toTDRS with the interval of DRS transmission and M can be the number ofsamples to read.

All inter-frequency RSTD measurement requirements specified in Sections8.1.2.6.1-8.1.2.6.4 (of 3GPP TS 36.133) shall apply when the measurementgap pattern ID #0 specified in Section 8.1.2.1 (of 3GPP TS 36.133) isused.

All inter-frequency RSTD measurement requirements specified in Sections8.1.2.6.1-8.1.2.6.4 (of 3GPP TS 36.133) shall apply without DRX as wellas for all the DRX cycles specified in 3GPP TS 36.331. More detailedfeatures related to the above operation can be referred to Section8.1.2.6.1 of 3GPP TS 36.133 V10.1.0 (2010-12).

To align discovery signal transmissions from cells in a frequency,similar to PRS, the following may be assumed. In detail, the following“DRS” field can be further defined based on the following language.

DRS

This field specifies the DRS configuration of the neighbour cell.

When the EARFCN of the neighbour cell is the same as for the assistancedata reference cell (or another neighbor cell), the target device mayassume that each DRS occasion in the neighbour cell at least partiallyoverlaps with a DRS occasion in the assistance data reference cell wherethe maximum offset between the transmitted DRS occasions may be assumedto not exceed half a subframe. Alternatively, the target device mayassume each DRS occasion in the neighbour cell does not overlap with theDRS occasion when the DRS occasion is set to 1 msec.

Additionally or alternatively, the target device may assume the DRS istransmitted during a DMTC duration whose maximum is set to 6 msec asconfigured by a network via a high layer signalling. Accordingly, the UEmay assume that the DRS is transmitting with in a window of 6 msec andfurther assume that the maximum of the offset of the DRS is 5 ms.

When an evolved absolute radio-frequency channel number (EARFCN) of theneighbour cell is the same as for the serving cell (or other cell), thetarget may assume that this cell has the same PRS periodicity (Tprs) asthe assistance data reference cell.

In other words, a UE may assume that DRS transmissions from multiplecells in a frequency is aligned in terms of period and offset.

More specifically, triggering discovery signal based measurement forinter-frequency may be configured only with measurement gap pattern #0where the network may align transmission of discovery signals to bealigned with UE measurement gap pattern.

If a UE is configured with both OTDOA and DRS, it would not be easy toalign all measurements by one measurement gap pattern. Thus, in general,it is worthwhile to consider configuring one or more measurement gappatterns for the UE which the serving cell should be aware of. However,in this case, not to increase UE overhead, relaxing legacy measurementincluding OTDOA (by extending measurement period) may be necessary. Or,similar to OTDOA, a UE should be configured with only one measurementgap which is used for both DRS and CRS (as well as OTDOA) measurementsif needed. However, this may restrict the deployment use cases for DRSbased discovery procedure. Thus, in general, consideration of relaxingUE measurement gap along with allowing multiple measurementconfigurations are preferred where at least some coordination amongsmall cells within a cluster is assumed (i.e., the above-explainedassumption related to DRS occasion is also applicable here.). This maybe extended to the same frequency. Among different frequencies, a UE maybe configured with different offset of measurement gap starting whichthe serving cell configures in multiple different ways.

One is to change the measurement gap pattern such to include multipleoffset values with larger measurement period or a UE may be configuredwith multiple measurement gaps.

Additionally or alternatively to the above operation, a UE can be alsoconfigured with a set of DRS configurations which includes informationon period, offset, the duration, and potentially RS type. In this case,period and duration can be optional whereas offset may be mandated oroptional (if the field is not present, UE can assume SFN and subframeoffset is aligned between the target cells and the serving cell). Ifperiod is not present, UE may assume a prefixed value such as 40 msec or80 msec.

When a measurement gap (or multiple measurement gaps) are configured, aUE can perform only DRS based measurement on those configured gaps fordiscovery signal based measurements.

Detailed features related to the above operation are explained asfollows.

FIG. 11 shows an example of UE measurement performed on the DRSaccording to one example of the present specification. As depicted, a UEcan be configured to measure at least one cell, e.g., small cellssupporting power on/off operations. In FIG. 11, cell 1 is on-cell whichis always “on” whereas cells 2-3 perform periodic on/off operations. Asdiscussed above, it is preferable that the period of the DRS is alignedwith the measurement gap, and thus the UE can be configured to measurethe DRS within the measurement gap. Further, as discussed above, alength of the measurement gap 1130 in FIG. 11 can be set to 6 ms and arepetition period of the measurement gap can be set to 40 ms or 80 ms,and thus a measurement period of the DRS 1140 in FIG. 11 can be set to40 msec, 80 msec, or 160 msec. Since the candidates of the DRS mayinclude the PSS, SSS, CRS, and optionally CSI-RS, the UE can beconfigured to measure the PSS, SSS, CRS, and CSI-RS during a certainmeasurement duration based on the “DRS configurations” delivered via anRRC message. Since the DRS configurations are delivered via the RRCmessage, the DRS configurations are delivered to the UE which is in anRRC connected mode.

As discussed above, each set of DRS configurations may includeinformation on period, offset, the duration used for DRS measurement.The information on period included in each set of DRS configurations mayindicate a measurement period of the DRS, and an offset of themeasurement period. Accordingly, a starting point of a duration wherethe UE possibly measures the DRS can be determined based on theinformation on period and offset. However, actual measurement on the DRSstarts with SSS (depicted in 1120 of FIG. 11). In detail, themeasurement on the DRS starts on a first subframe carrying the SSS ineach period of the measurement period. The UE's measurement on the DRSlasts during subframe(s) determined based on the “duration” included ineach set of DRS configurations. In FIG. 11, the duration 1150 is set to4 ms, and thus the measurement on the DRS lasts during 4 subframes. Themaximum of the duration 1150 can be set to 5 ms in the presentspecification.

It is preferable that each set of DRS configurations is defined perfrequency. In other words, a single and same DRS configuration can bedefined for an individual frequency, and such DRS configurations can beapplicable to any cell using the same frequency. Further, if the DRSconfiguration is defined for a specific frequency among a plurality ofavailable frequencies, the UE may only perform DRS measurement for thespecific frequency configured for the DRS and perform legacy measurementfor the remaining frequencies. When performing legacy measurement forthe remaining frequencies, the UE's measurement is not restricted tointerval/offset/duration included in the DRS configuration. Accordingly,UE may continuously (if possible) measure the conventional PSS, SSS, CRSfor the remaining frequencies, which are not configured with the DRSmeasurement.

Another aspect to consider is DRX cycle which is more tricky as it maynot easy to setup a periodic discovery signal transmission which isaligned with all DRX cycles. Thus, it can be assumed that a UE may wakeup during DRX cycle aligned with discovery signal transmission intervalsuch that it can perform measurement. In other words, if a UE isconfigured with a measurement gap (which may be additional measurementgap from the measurement gap configured for inter-frequency measurementusing legacy signals), it may be assumed that UE will performmeasurement regardless of its DRX states. In this case, it can befurther assumed that a UE may select any discovery signal interval ormeasurement gap to perform measurement with the constraint that at leastone measurement per DRX cycle is taken. For example, if DRX cycle is1280 msec where measurement gap is configured every 80 msec, whether theUE performs the measurement one or more time can be up to the UEimplementation as long as it performs the measurement at least once perDRX cycle to satisfy the requirement. When a UE can create autonomousgap, the timing information of network assistance for advanced discoveryprocedure can be used to determine when to perform the measurement.

1. Design of PSS/SSS Sequence

First, the design choices of signal generation of PSS and/or SSS aredescribed.

To avoid detection of PSS/SSS by legacy UEs, it is desirable to usedifferent resource in terms of time and frequency between legacy PSS/SSSand PSS/SSS for DRS in advanced discovery procedure. Furthermore, it isalso considerable to use different code shown in the following table.

TABLE 3 Root index Root index N_(ID) ⁽²⁾ (off-state) (on-state) 0 a 25 1b 29 2 c 34

Where a, b, and c are different numbers from 25, 29 and 34. This wouldincrease the complexity of advanced UE in terms of cellsearch/synchronization. However, this will allow preventing legacy UEsfrom detecting advanced discovery signals.

Furthermore, it may not be sufficient to perform coarse time/frequencytracking using single-shot PSS transmission. Thus, it would be desirableto consider multi-shot PSS transmission where PSS transmission can beoccurred in a burst fashion such that consecutive PSS transmissions canbe occurred over the multiple subframes or a UE may acquire coarse timesynchronization using multiple incidents of PSS transmission. If thelatter is used, the periodicity of PSS transmission should not be verylong. For example, at least measurement gap interval (40 msec or 80msec) may be used as a periodicity such that PSS will be transmitted inevery 40 mesc or 80 msec. If SSS is used for frequency tracking and/ortime tracking, the similar approaches for SSS can be applied as well.

When PSS/SSS is transmitted, to enhance the cell detection performance,a few approaches can be considered.

(1) SFN transmission of PSS and/or SSS from multiple cells within acluster

(2) Only a few cell transmits PSS and/or SSS

(3) PSS/SSS muting or ICIC: when discovery signal consists ofPSS/SSS/CSI-RS (for example, but not limited to this combination), toenhance the multiplexing capability of PSS/SSS, TDM approach amongmultiple cells can also be considered. For example, if discovery signalis transmitted (cell ID detection signals) every 200 msec where themeasurement RS such as CSI-RS may be transmitted more frequently such as40 msec, PSS/SSS may be transmitted in every 200 msec whereas CSI-RS istransmitted every 40 msec. In the first 40 msec interval, cell 1 maytransmit PSS/SSS/CSI-RS whereas other cells transmit only CSI-RS, in thesecond 40 msec interval, cell2 may transmit PSS/SSS/CSI-RS whereas othercells transmit only CSI-RS and so on. By this way, the interference onPSS/SSS can be minimized where measurement can be performed for a cellwhich is discovered by cell detection procedure. This is similar to thecase where PSS/SSS is transmitted every 5 msec whereas CRS istransmitted in every subframe for measurement. From a UE measurementperspective, a UE may select any incidents of CSI-RS (or CRS)transmission for its measurement if only one measurement is performed inevery 200 msec. Instead of TDM across subframes, TDM within a subframeor FDM can be also considered where PSS/SSS can be transmitted indifferent OFDM symbols by shift OFDM symbol per cell (or shift value maybe tied with cell ID) or shift the transmission frequency. The exampleis shown in FIG. 12. Instead of transmitting PSS/SSS infrequently only,all the RS can be transmitted infrequently where different cell may takedifferent interval to transmit the set of discovery signals. Forexample, in the figure, cell1 may transmit PSS/SSS/CSI-RS in first 40msec interval whereas cell2 may transmit PSS/SSS/CSI-RS in second 40msec interval. If this approach is used, the same CSI-RS configurationamong different cells or CRS pattern can be used where TDM is used amongmultiple cells to increase the orthogonality. This can be viewed as“offset” with the fixed discovery signal transmission period wherediscovery signal transmission from each cell uses different offsetvalue.

(4) Information for PSS and/or SSS cancellation ? the list of cell IDscan be configured to a UE where a UE may perform PSS and/or SSScancellation within the list of cell IDs (which may improve thecancellation performance).

Note that all proposed ideas here applicable to CSI-RS can be applicableto CRS in case DRS consists of PSS/SSS/CRS.

Considering legacy UE impact on transmitting potentially additionalPSS/SSS which may be covered by legacy ZP CSI-RS configuration, it isdesirable to transmit PSS/SSS in OFDM symbol 2 and 3 in the second slotwhere the entire RB can be covered by a ZP CSI-RS configuration fornormal CP FDD/TDD. For normal CP TDD, OFDM symbol 1 and 3 can be usedwhere the entire RB can be covered by non-ZP CSI-RS configurations (andthus a ZP CSI-RS configuration can cover the PSS/SSS transmission fordiscovery signal). For extended CP, OFDM symbol 4/5 for TDD/FDD can beconsidered and OFDM symbol 1/3 can be considered for TDD in second slot.If CSI-RS is not configured to a legacy UE, a ZP CSI-RS configuration isconfigured according to discovery signal transmission interval (forexample, every 40 msec, a ZP CSI-RS configuration is configured). Whendiscovery signal consists of CSI-RS as well, there are a few examples oftransmitting discovery signal CSI-RS can be considered.

(1) If system bandwidth is larger than 1.4 Mhz and CSI-RS is transmittedover the entire system bandwidth or larger than 1.4 Mhz bandwidth (fordiscovery signal transmission), it can be considered to “omit” CSI-RStransmission when CSI-RS is colliding with PSS/SSS (for a convenience,let's call DRS-CSI-RS as CSI-RS used for discovery signal andDRS-PSS/DRS-SSS as PSS/SSS used for discovery signal). This means thatDRS-CSI-RS can be omitted if it collides with DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS. Thus,DRS-CSI-RS will be transmitted over the entire system bandwidth (orconfigured system bandwidth) potentially except for the center 6 PRBswhere DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS is transmitted. This will be applicable whenDRS-CSI-RS will be transmitted in the same OFDM symbol whereDRS-PSS/DRS-SSS is transmitted. The example is shown in FIG. 13. (InFIG. 13, a first case where DRS-CSI-RS 1330 collides with DRS-PSS 1310and DRS-SSS 1320 and a second case where DRS-CSI-RS 1330 does notcollide with DRS-PSS 1310 and DRS-SSS 1320 are depicted) If systembandwidth is 1.4 Mhz, to transmit DRS-CSI-RS with other signals, eitherdifferent CSI-RS configuration not colliding with other signals is usedor different subframe needs to be used for DRS-CSI-RS transmission.

(2) Regardless of system bandwidth, always DRS-CSI-RS may not betransmitted where DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS is transmitted in any PRB in the sameOFDM symbol. For example, if PSS is transmitted in OFDM symbol 2 ofsecond slot, CSI-RS configuration spanning OFDM symbol 2 of second slotwill not be used for DRS-CSI-RS configuration.

In the above passage, DRS-PSS, DRS-SSS, DRS-CRS, DRS-CSI-RS, and DRS-PRSindicate PSS, SSS, CRS, CSI-RS and PRS included in the DRS,respectively. In one aspect of the present specification, theabove-mentioned RSs may be similar to conventional RSs in terms ofsequence-generation, but different waveforms may be used. In detail, theconventional PSS and DRS-PSS can be transmitted via a same waveform,whereas transmission scheme or resource allocation may be differentlyapplied to the both PSSs. Accordingly, depending on the transmissionscheme of the DRS-PSS, the UE may assume that the DRS-PSS is same as theconventional PSS in some aspect. This is also applicable to theconventional SSS and the DRS-SSS. Accordingly, the conventional SSS andDRS-PSS may be different in terms of sequence-generation andresource-allocation.

When CSI-RS is used for DRS, it is also feasible that a UE can beconfigured with CSI-RS configuration mainly for CSI measurement. IfDRS-CSI-RS configuration and CSI-RS configuration is the same for aspecific cell, both CSI-RS may be used for CSI measurement. Unless notedotherwise, a UE may assume that only CSI-RS configuration configured forCSI measurement is used for CSI measurement.

If DRS-CSI-RS is not transmitted when DRS-CSI-RS collides with DRS-PSSor DRS-SSS, for measurement DRS-PSS and/or DRS-SSS can be also used. Forexample, to measure RSRP, all the REs carrying DRS can be used toperform measurement. For RSSI measurement, this can be different whereRSSI may be measured only in OFDM symbols configured to measure RSSI orthe entire subframe. However, considering a case where DRS-PSS/DRS-SSSare transmitted in a SFN manner by multiple cells (and thus the power isaccumulated), it can be also considered not to consider DRS-PSS and/orDRS-SSS in RSRP-like measurement. Or, the behavior can be configured bythe network as well whether to include those REs for measurement or not.Generally, if the cell ID used for DRS-CSI-RS and DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS isidentical, both RS may be used for measurement. Otherwise, only one typeof RS is used for measurement. In different way is that the RS used forcell detection/verification is used for measurement. If DRS-CSI-RS isused cell verification finally where the partially DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS isused for cell ID detection, only DRS-CSI-RS is used for measurement.

If CRS is used for discovery signal, this kind of problem may not exist.Further to reduce the impact on legacy UEs, the subframe where discoverysignals are transmitted can be configured as MBSFN subframes.

2. Design of CRS or CSI-RS or PRS Used for Cell ID and Measurement

Even though PSS/SSS may be transmitted infrequently, CRS or CSI-RS orPRS used for measurement may need to be transmitted more often. Thus,when discovery signal consists of multiple signals (e.g.,PSS/SSS+CSI-RS), the interval/duration of transmitting one signal can bedifferent from the interval/duration of transmitting another signal. Inother words, the interval of discovery signal transmission may be fixed,yet, whether multiple signals will be present in one episode ofdiscovery signal transmission or not can be different. One example is totransmit one PSS/SSS in every 40 msec whereas CRS or CSI-RS will betransmitted in every subframe (in relation to MBSFN SF) for m subframe(e.g., m=6). Or, more specifically, PSS/SSS can be transmitted in every40 msec of subframe #0/#5 (i.e., twice per 40 msec) and CRS/CSI-RS maybe transmitted more frequently than PSS/SSS or following the currentconfiguration (e.g., CRS=continuous over m subframes, CSI-RS followingconfigured period).

When discovery signal (i.e., the DRS) consists of multiple signals, QCLrelationship among signals can be considered. For example, if PSS/SSSand CRS or CSI-RS or PRS are used for discovery signals, PSS/SSS antennaports and CRS or CSI-RS or PRS antenna ports can have QCL relationshipw.r.t. large scale properties such as average delay, delay spread,Doppler spread and Doppler shift (or a subset of properties). In otherwords, if PSS/SSS included in the DRS is used for coarse time/frequencytracking, the signals used for coarse time/frequency tracking may haveQCL relationship with signals used for cell identification ormeasurement. Also, RS for cell identification can have QCL relationshipwith RS used for measurement. Explicit signaling of QCL relationship orbehavior (such as QCL behavior A or B) can be considered to a UE viahigher layer signaling. Or, a mapping between cell ID used by PSS/SSSand CSI-RS or CRS or PRS can be signaled.

3. Discovery Signal Design

Hereinafter, features related to signal designs of DRS are explained indetail. The following features are beneficial when RSs included in theDRS have modified features in view of the conventional RSs.

When designing signals including PSS, SSS and CSI-RS, the followingissues should be considered:

-   -   Due to heavy interference on PSS/SSS, it would be considered to        use “SFN-ed” transmission of PSS/SSS if cancellation may not        work perfectly or PSS/SSS muting is not used;    -   In other words, PSS/SSS are used for time/frequency tracking and        actual cell ID search may be performed based on CSI-RS;    -   To minimize the number of cell ID detections (hypothesis),        further consideration of shared cell ID among cells in a small        cell cluster where virtual cell ID can be configured for CSI-RS        where virtual cell ID can be driven by cell ID used for PSS/SSS.        For example, virtual cell ID would be [physical cell ID+min_ID,        physical cell ID+max_ID] where physical cell ID is used for        generating PSS/SSS;    -   Depending on the quality of SSS, either one or two (or more) SSS        sequences can be transmitted; and    -   Considering the UE power consumption and reliability, it can be        further considered to transmit more than one DRS-PSS and/or        DRS-SSS pair in one discovery signal transmission.

In terms of the location of DRS-PSS and/or DRS-SSS, to avoid detectionof DRS by legacy UEs, and also to enhance the multiplexing capability, anew location different from Rel-8 PSS/SSS location can be considered. Asshown in FIG. 13, one example would be to utilize OFDM symbol 2/3 insecond slot in normal CP. To make a different gap from FDD,DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS can be placed in OFDM symbol 2/3 respectively.Furthermore, since a UE expects to receive system information via higherlayer signaling or by receiving system information broadcast once thecell is detected (and the target cell wakes up), there is no need totake a different gap between FDD/TDD. Thus, we propose to use the samegap between DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS regardless duplex. Furthermore, instead ofDRS-PSS/DRS-SSS combination, the following combinations can be alsoconsidered.

(1) DRS-PSS0/DRS-PSS1 where PSS0 and PSS1 can have different code(generated by different root indices); and

(2) DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS0/DRS-SSS1 where SSS0 and SSS1 can be generated as ifit is transmitted in subframe #0/#5 in Rel-8 SSS sequence generation.

Candidate locations of DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS would be to avoid collision with:

(1) PDCCH (at least one or two OFDM symbols);

(2) CRS (at least for one antenna port);

(3) PSS;

(4) SSS: when SSS is transmitted and used for discovery signal, eitherSSS0 or SSS1 (sequence transmitted in subframe#0 or subframe #5 can beused. However, it is not desirable to use both sequences unless the UEdetects the subframe index or SFN of the cell by reading two SSSsequences);

(5) Potentially considering to avoid collision with PBCH; and

(6) Guard period.

FIG. 14 shows candidate locations of DRS-PSS and DRS-SSS according toone aspect of the present specification.

In normal subframe, candidate locations would be as follows.

As depicted, in normal CP, OFDM symbol 2/3 of each slot may be used. Inextended CP, OFDM symbol 1/2 in second slot can be used. In specialsubframe, OFDM symbol 2/3 in first slot or 1/2 in first slot innormal/extended CP can be considered. If DRS-CSI-RS is transmitted aswell, to avoid collision with PSS/SSS, either DRS-CSI-RS may not betransmitted at PRBs where DRS-CSI-RS collides with PSS/SSS (it mayimpact discovery signal performance) or to avoid performance impact, itcan be further assumed that DRS-CSI-RS will be transmitted innon-center-6 PRB system only if the system bandwidth is larger than 6PRB. Or, a discovery signal may be transmitted only in subframe wherePSS/SSS is not transmitted by the network configuration and thuscollision would not be occurred. When DRS collides with PBCH, advancedUE may assume that DRS will be transmitted regardless of PBCH (and thusPBCH will be rate matched or punctured). Since legacy UE is not aware ofDRS signal, it may assume that PBCH will be transmitted where theperformance of legacy UE would be impacted as the DRS may override REscolliding with PBCH.

Furthermore, when transmitting the DRS, the number of antenna portswhich may determine the RE density of DRS signal may be determinedregardless of actual antenna ports indicated by PBCH antenna ports. Toallow dense DRS transmission, it would be desirable to fix 4 antennaports (only for RE mapping) where actual transmission may be done viasingle antenna ports or multiple antenna ports. In terms of computingRSRP, a UE may assume that it is transmitted from single antenna suchthat all REs can be used for measurement. FIG. 15 shows a DRS RS patternbased on CRS according to the present specification.

If CSI-RS is used for DRS, 4 antenna port can be assumed to determine REposition where actual transmission may be done via single port ormultiple port if configured by higher layer or known to the UE. In otherwords, CDM may not be utilized. The sequence may be generated assumingsingle antenna port where the same sequence is transmitted over theresource location where 4 antenna ports are assumed in the currentCSI-RS configuration as in the Rel-11 specification. In other words, anexample of mapping can be based on the following formula. If the UE hasnot acquired any information about antenna port, it may assume singleantenna port transmission.

$\begin{matrix}{{a_{k,i} = {{l_{l,n_{s}}\left( m^{\prime} \right)}\mspace{14mu}{where}}}{{k = {k^{\prime} + {12m} + {\left\{ {{- 0},{- 6}} \right\}{fornormalCP}}}},{\left\{ {{- 0},{- 3}} \right\}{forextendedCP}}}{l = {l^{\prime} + \left\{ {{{\begin{matrix}{l^{''}\mspace{11mu}} & {{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 0\text{-}19},} \\\; & {{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}\mspace{191mu}} \\{2l^{''}} & {{{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 20\text{-}31},}\mspace{50mu}} \\\; & {{{normal}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}\mspace{194mu}} \\{l^{''}\mspace{11mu}} & {{{CSI}\mspace{14mu}{reference}\mspace{14mu}{signal}\mspace{14mu}{configurations}\mspace{20mu} 0\text{-}27},} \\\; & {{{extended}\mspace{14mu}{cyclic}\mspace{14mu}{prefix}}\mspace{169mu}}\end{matrix}l^{''}} = 0},{{1m} = 0},1,\ldots\;,{{N_{RB}^{{DL}\;\_\;{DRS}} - {1m^{\prime}}} = {m + \left\lfloor \frac{N_{RB}^{\max,{DL}} - N_{RB}^{{DL}\;\_\;{DRS}}}{2} \right\rfloor}}} \right.}}} & \left\lbrack {{Math}\mspace{14mu}{{FIG}.\mspace{14mu} 4}} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

If PRS is used, the pattern with one or two antenna PBCH ports is usedfor DRS where the density of PRS is higher than 4 ports.

4. Multiplexing of DRS with Data Transmission

When a discovery signal (i.e., DRS) is transmitted, if the cell ison-state or MBMS transmission occurs, data transmission may be occurred.In terms of MBMS transmission, it is not desirable to transmit MBMStransmission in subframes where discovery signals are transmitted sinceit may occupy resources in MBMS region. Thus, a UE expecting to receiveMBMS may not expect to receive discovery signal in a subframe. Forinstance, if the UE is configured to receive MBMS services and/or MBMSsubframes, the measurement on the DRS may be performed in acorresponding subframe. For data transmission in on-state, for advancedUE, a rate matching pattern needs to be considered. A UE, if configuredwith one or more zero power (ZP) CSI-RS configuration used for discoverysignal, it may assume that data will be rate-matched around thoseresource elements. In other words, a muting or rate matching pattern canbe configured to a UE regardless of actual discovery signaltransmission. A UE further assumes that other signals such as PSS/SSS,CSI-RS may be transmitted in those ZP CSI-RS configurations where stillthe data will be rate matched around those REs. The same rate matchingcan be applied to computing the number of available REs for ePDCCHresource when EPDCCH is configured in that subframe. In other words,those REs configured by ZP CSI-RS configurations for discovery signalwill not be accounted for EPDCCH available REs and the necessaryprocedures to determine the minimum aggregation level and resourcemapping should be taken.

If CP length used for discovery signal and data transmission aredifferent (e.g., extended CP for DRS and normal CP for datatransmission), when data transmission occurs, advanced UE shall assumethat CP used for DRS is used for data transmission as well in thatsubframe including both data and ePDCCH transmission (and also for PDCCHtransmission).

Furthermore considering a case where DRS is transmitted only viasub-band (not via entire system bandwidth), ZP CSI-RS configuration canalso include the list of PRBs or bandwidth where ZP CSI-RS configurationcan be applied.

Considering CoMP operation, when dynamic point selection (DPS) is used,considering discovery signal transmission, more than one ZP CSI-RSconfiguration may be configured per PQI entry where one is to use fordata rate matching for CSI-RS configurations (of neighbor cells) and theother is used for data rate matching for DRS configurations. Since theinterval may be different between two ZP-CSI-RS configuration, it wouldbe better to configure different ZP-CSI-RS configurations or at leasttwo different interval/offset configurations. This may be applicableonly to advanced UEs. Considering potentially hopping of CSI-RSresources of DRS signal, if needed, a hopping pattern or configurationchange can be specified in a CSI-RS configuration used for DRS. In otherwords, ZP-CSI-RS configuration configured for DRS may havesubframe-index dependent or SFN-dependent RE mapping or configurationmapping such that actual ZP-CSI-RS RE positions may be changed over timefollowing a predetermined or higher-layer configured pattern. Or, simplya ZP-CSI-RS configuration which consists of multiple NZP-CSI-RSconfigurations for multiple DRS signals from multiple neighbor cells canbe configured to a UE where the actual mapping between REs to DRS-CSI-RSfrom a specific cell may change over time or over SFN. In other words, acell ID=1 may transmit CSI-RS in CSI-RS configuration #0 at one timewhere next time it may transmit CSI-RS configuration #1. Regardless ofactual location change, a UE can assume REs configured in the ZP-CSI-RSconfiguration will be rate matched.

The rate matching can be applied for SPS as well according to theconfiguration per subframe where SPS-PDSCH is transmitted.

As discussed above, at least two different interval/offsetconfigurations for ZP-CSI-RS configuration can be supported in thepresent specification. In one example, the maximum number of thedifferent interval/offset configurations may be associated with theduration during which the UE performs measurement on the DRS (asillustrated in FIG. 11). As explained above, the maximum length of theduration can be set to 5 ms, and thus the maximum number of thedifferent interval/offset configurations can be set to 5. Namely, zeroor a maximum of five different interval/offset configurations used forZP-CSI-RS can be used in the present specification. When at least twointerval/offset configurations are provided, the interval/offset areseparately configured.

5. Misaligned SFN Among Cells

If cells transmitting discovery signals (i.e., DRS) in a small cellcluster are not aligned in terms of SFN, there is a need to select acell which can be used as a ‘reference’ to transmit discovery signals ina same subframe. Or, an overlaid macro's SFN is used as a reference.Also, it is possible that the serving cell gives the offset value(between serving cell and target cell ? or cells for discovery) can beconfigured to the UE along with discovery signal timing information.Particularly, this would be necessary if DRS is transmitted in a fixedsubframe/SFN such as every 40 msec with SFN %4=0 transmits DRS, then aUE needs to know SFN and/or subframe index of the target cell (or cellsto discover). However, cells transmitting discovery signals may alignthemselves within a measurement gap period such that a UE can discoverymultiple cells at one time attempt. Thus, this SFN and/or subframeoffset or actual value can be configured per frequency rather than percell. This may be applied in a measurement gap (or similar configurationfor discovery signal based measurement object) where the offset can beused to indicate the offset value between serving and neighbor cells forthe discovery signal based measurement. A UE however may not assume thatdiscovery signals from multiple cells may come in the same subframe.

As discussed above, in a case where a number of small cells transmitDRSs there may occur misalignment between different DRSs, and thusmeasurement period and offset of the DRS given to the UE may not besufficient information enabling the UE to determine correct timing forthe DRS measurement. Accordingly, UE is required to a select a cellwhich can be used as a reference to transmit the DRS in a same subframe.As discussed above, the macro cell (e.g., primary cell)'s system framenumber (SFN) can be as the reference for the misalignment.

6. Not Aligned CP Among Cells

To protect discovery signals (i.e., DRS), it is desirable to configureseparate zero-power CSI-RS configurations covering discovery signalstransmitted by cells using different CP. For example, for discoverysignal related configuration, the used CP can be indicated or more thanone discovery signal related configurations can be configured per eachCP length. For example, DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS may be transmitted in differentOFDM symbols for normal CP and extended CP. Thus, it is desirable totransmit in different subframe of discovery signals. Or, one simpleapproach is to use “extended CP” or “normal CP” regardless of actual CPused for data transmission. In this case, actual CP used for datatransmission will be configured to a UE (or discovered by UE) uponconfiguring the cell discovered. If this is used, a UE may not assumethat CP used for discovery signal is identical for CP used for datatransmission. This would be useful when DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS is transmittedin a SFN manner and the time/frequency synchronization accuracy may notbe so high by one-shot of DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS and thus transmittingDRS-CSI-RS or DRS-CRS using extended CP would be beneficial for UEperformance. However, this has a drawback where multiplexing of data anddiscovery signal would become more challenging particularly for legacyUEs. When only one type of CP is used for DRS, to generate DRS signal,Ncp may not be used. In general, subframe index and Ncp which may not berelevant for DRS may not be used for sequence generation. This isparticularly important in a case when a UE does not know the SFN or slotindex of the target cell for detection or from where DRS is transmitted.

7. TDD Duplex

When TDD is used, depending on TDD DL/UL configurations, the number ofdownlink subframes is limited. Considering subframe #0/#5 is used mainlyfor PSS/SSS and PBCH/SIB transmission and discovery signal may betransmitted while the cell is on-state as well, utilizing specialsubframe should be considered. In this case, for a legacy UE, long guardperiod may be configured such that a legacy UE may not expect to receiveany RS in special subframes where advanced UE can be configured withdiscovery signal transmission along with different guard periodconfiguration. For this, new CSI-RS configuration in special subframecan be considered as well as new ZP CSI-RS configuration covering thosenew CSI-RS configurations specified in special subframes. For specialsubframe configuration, a UE can be configured with special subframeconfiguration used for discovery signal transmission and potentiallyused for data transmission (for advanced UEs). Alternatively, a UE mayassume that guard period is same as configured in SIB (same as to legacyUEs) whereas discovery signals can be transmitted in those guard periodfollowing discovery signal transmission configurations. In this case, ZPCSI-RS configurations for DRS may not be necessary.

Note that a UE can be configured with duplex mode of each frequencylayer when network assistance information is available such that a UEmay assume a certain pattern of PSS/SSS and/or CSI-RS/CRS per duplextype per each frequency. In other words, blind decoding of differentPSS/SSS location to determine duplex mode may not be necessary ifadvanced discovery procedure is utilized. Furthermore, a UE can beconfigured with CP length used in each frequency (at least for DRStransmission) such that blind decoding of CP length may not be necessaryeither with advanced discovery procedure.

When TDD enhanced Interference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation (elMTA)is used, it is possible that a subframe where discovery signal has beenscheduled is changed to uplink subframe. To avoid this kind ofsituation, it is considerable to allow only subframe configured asdownlink subframe by a system information block (SIB) can transmitdiscovery signals. Otherwise, a UE may assume that discovery signal willnot be present in subframes changed to uplink subframe indicated bydynamic signaling. Or, it is also possible that eNB will transmit DRSregardless of DL or UL subframe according to the configured DRStransmission configuration. This would be useful particularly forneighbor cell measurement.

As discussed above, elMTA is a scheme where a certain TDD uplinksubframe originally allocated for a certain transmission (e.g., uplink)is dynamically allocated for another one (e.g., downlink). Accordingly,if eIMTA is used for a UE configured to perform DRS measurement based onDRS configuration given by the network, it should be clarified thatwhich TDD subframes are assumed to be carrying the DRS. To furtherimprove the conventional art, the present specification proposes toassume that a TDD downlink subframe allocated by the SIB is onlysubframe(s) carrying the DRS.

With respect to special TDD subframes (e.g., DwPTS and UpPTS), thefollowing improvement are further proposed by the present specification.

For DwPTS region among neighbor cells, unless informed otherwise, UE mayassume the shortest DwPTS region. Or, it may assume that the same DwPTSconfiguration is used among neighbor cells from the serving cell. Or,DwPTS region can be configured per frequency (along with potentiallyconfiguration of UL/DL).

In more detail, based on the conventional art, there is a technicalproblem in which a UE does not know the exact length of special TDDsubframes of the neighbor cells when measuring the DRS. Accordingly, thepresent specification proposes that the UE assumes that a length ofDwPTS region as a length of special TDD subframes of the neighbor cellswhen measuring the DRS.

8. Handling of Short-Term Measurement/Detection Accuracy

Considering a case where a UE may perform cell detection on a cellinfrequently (e.g., every 200 msec), it is important that a UE candetect a cell in one attempt not to increase the latency of celldetection or if DRS transmission occurs rather occasionally, it isimportant to make it feasible to detect a cell in one instance of DRStransmission. To enhance the cell detection and measurement performance,some aspects should be considered. One is that the accuracy oftime/frequency tracking by one-shot PSS/SSS transmission in a DRStransmission interval. It is therefore necessary to consider a casewhere multiple shot of PSS/SSS transmission may be necessary. Totransmit multiple PSS/SSS, either multiple transmission over multiplesubframes or multiple transmission in a subframe can be considered. Theproblem with multiple transmission in a subframe is that it becomeschallenging to multiplex DRS with existing RS when the cell is on-state.Thus, when it is used, OFDM symbol used for CRS transmission may not beused for DRS signal transmissions. Or, in that case, since a UE can useCRS for the same purpose, DRS colliding with existing signals may beomitted. However, this may impact the performance of neighbor celldetection which may not be aware of the cell state, it is not desirableto change the DRS transmission depending on the cell state. However, ifthere is a mechanism that UE can discover the cell state, different DRSsignal composition can be also considered. When DRS transmission isoccurred over multiple subframes, considering potentially different TDDDL/UL configurations and different duplex and collision with subframe#0, the number of repetition may not exceed two subframes. Particularlyin TDD, if two subframes are used for DRS transmission, to work withmost special subframe configurations, it is desirable to transmitDRS-PSS/DRS-SSS in a first slot rather than in second slot. It meansthat the first DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS may be placed in different OFDM symbolfrom second DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS. Or, only DRS-PSS or DRS-SSS repetition canbe further considered.

In terms of measurement, it would be still desirable to take multiplemeasurements over the time to reflect channel condition changes (e.g.,fading, Doppler, etc.), thus, if repetition occurs, it would bedesirable to reduce the DRS signals used for measurement (such asDRS-CSI-Rs) transmission interval. For example, if DRS-PSS/DRS-SSS istransmitted in every 200 msec, DRS-CSI-RS may be transmitted in every 40msec where 5 samples of DRS-CSI-RS can be accumulated for themeasurement. It is however considerable to repeat measurement RS overmultiple subframes in a DRS interval as well.

Considering a case where muting may be performed for PRB locations whereDRS is transmitted, in other words, PRBs in a subframe may only carryDRS from potentially multiple cells, data may not be scheduled in thosePRBs in spite of cell is on-state, DRS signals may use all the REs. Oneexample is to use PRS configuration format or repeated CRS or repeatedCSI-RS configurations. Furthermore, repeating PSS/SSS can be alsoconsidered. When this is considered, still, the OFDM symbols used forPDCCH may not be used for DRS as PDCCH needs to be spanned over theentire system bandwidth. Also, if EPDCCH set is configured to a subsetof full PRBs used for DRS, handling of EPDCCH would be necessary by notscheduling EPDCCH or by eNB scheduling. In other words, if this isassumed that a UE may assume that DRS will be transmitted regardless ofdata transmission or cell state or EPDCCH configuration. Either themaximum OFDM symbols used for PDCCH is assumed when DRS is designed(e.g., 3 for system bandwidth is larger than 1.4 Mhz, 4 for 1.4 Mhz) ora UE may assume that PDCCH will not be overlapped with DRS if configuredwhere DRS may use all OFDM symbols except for one or two OFDM symbolsreserved for PDCCH transmission.

9. Cell Detection Algorithms Using Multiple Signals for DRS

When multiple signals are used for discovery signals, there are multipleapproaches of utilizing those signals for cell ID detection,measurement, and so on. This section describes a few alternativeapproaches and potential benefits and drawbacks of each approach. For aconvenience, let's assume that discovery signal can consist of PSS, SSSand CSI-RS or PSS, SSS and CRS. Whether one DRS transmission includesonly one PSS, SSS and CSI-RS or PSS, SSS and CRS or multiple can be usedis not fixed. For a convenience, this specification explains one exampleusing one transmission of each signal. However, it can be applied tomultiple transmission of each signal without the loss of generality.

First Category

Cell Detection Utilizes all Three Signals:

(1) A cell ID consists of [n_cid_1]*xy+[n_cid_2]*y+[n_cid_3] where forexample y is 17 and x is 10. PSS can carry n_cid_1 and SSS can carryn_cid_2 and CSI-RS or CRS can carry n_cid_3 when sequence is generatedfor each signal. More specifically, n_cid_2 can be used to indicate thelocation of CSI-RS configuration/resource or CRS v-shift/resource. Inother words, n_cid_2 (second cell ID indicator) can be used to indicatethe location of CSI-RS or CRS resource. As an example, cell ID=308 canbe represented as n_cid_1, n_cid_2=6, n_cid_3=17 where if CSI-RS is usedand the total configurations used for CSI-RS are 10 sets, configuration6 can be used for carrying the DRS for the cell. The location can bemapped or inferred from n_cid_1 and/or n_cid_2. The exact function maybe different. The principle of this approach is to divide cell IDs in tomultiple signals to reduce the number candidates per signal and if CRSor CSI-RS which may have multiple candidate resource locations, thepartial or full cell ID can be used to infer the resource location ofthose signals.

(2) A cell ID is same as Rel-8 PSS/SSS where CRS or CSI-RS may carry thefull cell ID: in this case, cell ID may not be divided further and thesame sequence for PSS and/or SSS can be reused. However, cell IDdetection can be done using multiple signals. For example, instead ofrelying on PSS/SSS for cell detection, all signals are used fordetecting a cell ID. In this case, detection of PSS can be same as Rel-8implementation whereas detection of cell ID using SSS may be slightlychanged to utilize SSS and/or CSI-RS (or CRS). In generating sequence,SSS and CSI-RS may be used jointly such that the same scrambling can beused in different resource locations. In terms of detecting correlation,correlation of PSS and either from SSS or CSI-RS/CRS can be used forcell detection.

Second Category

Cell Detection Utilizes Only One Signal Such as CSI-RS and/or CRS

(1) If this is used, frequency tracking or time tracking can beaccomplished via PSS and/or SSS. In terms of cell ID, a common cell IDmay be used. When network synchronization is not achieved among smallcells, and thus, transmission timing difference among small cells mayexceed 3 us, it may not be effective to use the same cell ID forPSS/SSS. In that case, the same cell ID may be shared only among cellssynchronized. Thus, multiple cell IDs can be detected by detecting PSSand/or SSS where each cell ID represents different timing or grouping.The ID detected PSS/SSS may not be tied with cell ID detected by CSI-RSor CRS. In other words, sequence or scrambling used in time/frequencytracking may not be used for cell ID detection. Alternatively, IDdetected by PSS/SSS can be used for scrambling CSI-RS or CRS as shown inabove approaches.

(2) To minimize the complexity increase, a UE may assume the whole orpartial network assistance such as duplex type or CP length, etc.

In this category is used, the combination of discovery signal can be asfollows:

(1) PSS+CSI-RS assuming PSS is sufficient for time/frequency trackingfor CSI-RS cell detection. If the performance of time/frequency trackingwith PSS is not sufficient, frequency tracking using CSI-RS can befurther considered. In this case, predetermine location of CSI-RSresource would be important to guarantee the performance;

(2) PSS+PSS+CSI-RS where two PSS signals are used for time/frequencytracking and CSI-RS is used for cell ID detection and measurement;

(3) PSS+CRS;

(4) PSS+PSS+CRS; and

(5) PSS+SSS+CRS (+CSI-RS) in this case, a UE may assume that CSI-RS ispresent only if configured with CSI-RS configuration such as scramblingID, the resource configurations for CSI-RS, etc.

When multiple PSS is transmitted, instead of transmitting multiplesignals in a same subframe, two or multiple subframes can be utilized.

Third Category

Cell Detection Utilizes Only PSS/SSS:

(1) if this is used, cell detection can be performed as in Rel-8 celldetection without assuming potentially aggregation of multiple PSS/SSSover time (it can be aggregated depending on the latency of celldetection requirement, yet, it is desirable to be able to detect cell IDby one-shot PSS/SSS or one-burst of DRS); and

(2) When this is used, measurement may be performed using PSS/SSS aswell or additional RS such as CRS or CSI-RS can be used for measurement.

10. Potential Network Assistance Information and Signaling

In general, discovery signal transmission location can be either fixedin a specification or configurable by higher layer. As it is designed toallow higher multiplexing/orthogonality, it is desirable to be able toconfigure the periodicity and/or offset of discovery signaltransmission. Furthermore, considering a case where overlaid macro maynot be aligned in terms of SFN, some flexibility to configure theperiodicity and offset can be beneficial. However, it is still feasibleto prefix the location of discovery signal transmission.

Regardless of whether the discovery signal transmission periodicity andoffset are prefixed or configurable, some network assistance informationto help the network discovery would be necessary. At least, some timingwhere a UE can find discovery signals would be necessary and the timingand duration of those timing can be determined based on the detectionperformance requirement.

One example is to use the current measurement gap configuration as it iswhere a UE needs to assume that discovery signal may not be transmittedin other than configured measurement gap. Thus, autonomous celldetection using discovery signal can be more challenging. In this case,by proper network coordination, by configuring measurement gap per UE,the periodicity and offset of discovery signal can be given. However, itis feasible that each frequency uses different offset, thus, a separatemeasurement gap or periodicity/offset can be configured per frequency.Moreover, a list of cell IDs per frequency and a list of candidatelocations where discovery signals are transmitted can be also signaledto help the network discovery at a UE. A list of candidate locations canbe predetermined and thus the configuration may not be necessary.

Alternatively, to consider multiple frequencies and different offset perfrequency, a measurement gap can be configured such as:

-   -   Measurement interval: maximum discovery signal transmission        interval such as 200 msec    -   Measurement offset values    -   Set of {frequency, offset}

Where a UE can perform measurement on a certain frequency at a givenoffset value. Not to incur too much overhead and interruption, theoffset value would be desirability multiple of current measurement gapsuch as 40/80 mesc+delta_offset. In other words, a UE can performmeasurement on a set of frequencies near every 40 msec or 80 msec andthe discovery signal transmission interval can be larger than typicalmeasurement gap. Or, different offset can be used per a set of cells.Thus, in that case,

-   -   Measurement interval: maximum discovery signal transmission        interval such as 200 msec    -   Measurement offset values    -   Set of {frequency, cell IDs, offset}

Furthermore, the location of DRS RSs can be also assisted. One exampleis to give a configuration information about the location of either‘SSS’ or ‘PSS’ or additional ‘SSS’ or additional ‘PSS’ in terms of OFDMsymbol or frequency. Furthermore, a gap used between PSS and SSSaccording to each NCID(2) ? used for PSS scrambling e.g., can beconfigured for all NCID values (or a mapping table or an index toindicate mapping table). Or, if CSI-RS type DRS is used, CSI-RSconfiguration or mapping between CSI-RS resource position and cell IDcan be configured. One example is that the total number of CSI-RSconfigurations (e.g., 10 or 20) where the starting offset can be givenwhere each cell locates its DRS in cell ID %max_configuration_number+offset among feasible configurations orresource positions. For example, if 10 CSI-RS configurations are usedwith offset=0, cell ID % 10=0 will use CSI-RS configuration #0, cell ID% 10=1 will use CSI-RS configuration #0 and so on.

Also, mapping between cell ID and Vshift value can be configured wherefor example if CRS with Vshift is used for discovery signal, rather thanfollowing current specification, different Vshift according to themapping can be determined if higher layer signaling is given.

Moreover, considering a case where network timing information is notknown among eNBs or cells, maximum uncertainty in terms of timing can bealso configured such that a UE may take maximum uncertainty in terms ofmeasurement gap application. Along with maximum uncertainty, a UE may beconfigured with large measurement gap to find discovery signals for thetarget cells. The large measurement gap may be used once or only a fewtimes. Once a UE discovers the discovery signal transmission timinginformation, a UE may report the discovered “offset” value to theserving cell so that smaller measurement gap can be configured. Forexample, if serving cell and target cells are “30 msec” off and theserving cell does not know the timing information, it may configure themaximum measurement gap of 40+6=46 msec assuming discovery signal istransmitted in every 40 msec. Once a UE discovers that 30 msec offsetbetween serving cell and target cells discovery signal transmission, itmay inform the serving cell. Or, the UE reports the subframe or SFNinformation of the serving cell when discovery signal is detected. Or,eNB may configure multiple measurement gap patterns where offset valuemay change per measurement interval. For example, a measurement gappattern can be given

{measurement gap pattern=160 msec with 10 msec gap

global_offset=0

In every 40 msec,

offset value 1=10

offset value 2=20

offset value 3=30

offset value 4=40

}

where measurement interval would be 160 msec and each measurement can beoccurred in every 40 msec with different offset values. In first 40 msecinterval, the offset value 10 is used, thus a UE starts measurement at40 msec+10 msec (assuming starting at 0 msec), the second offset value20 is used for second 40 msec, thus a UE starts measurement at 80msec+20 msec (100 msec), and so on. Assuming maximum uncertainly is 40msec, this is to divide search window per each measurement episode untila UE finds the offset value. When a UE discovers the offset value, a newmeasurement gap is configured or a UE may ignore sub-offset values.

Since it is also feasible that some cells in a frequency may transmitdiscovery signals whereas other cells may not transmit discoverysignals, it is desirable to know which cells are transmitting discoverysignals and thus a UE can use discovery signals for measurement and celldetection. One simple approach is to send a list of cell IDs which canbe discovered/measured by discovery signals. If the list of cell IDs isnot known or configured, a UE may assume that all the cells in thefrequency transmit DRS if DRS is configured for that frequency. In acase, a measurement gap is used for inter-frequency covering both legacyand DRS based cell detection and measurement, a UE may perform bothdetection/measurement at each measurement gap. In that case, if a UEdetects a cell with the same ID with both legacy and DRS measurement, itshall assume two cells are different even though the cell ID is the sameand reports both values (along with potentially detection/measurement RStype). Alternatively, a UE may assume that the cell ID is the same andtakes only DRS-based detection/measurement. If a UE is configured with alist of cell IDs transmitting DRS, whether to detect other cells withlegacy signals would be up to UE implementation. Given that measurementgap configuration, a UE is free to perform both detection algorithms andreports them. However, if a DRS is configured for a given frequency, aUE may not perform “legacy signal based detection/measurement” otherthan configured subframes for measurement/detection (e.g., measurementgap). This is to avoid a case where a UE may detect legacy signalstransmitted by ON-state of the cell which transmits DRS and performmeasurements on the cell. If a UE performs measurement, it may reportthe RS type along with results.

As discussed above, the present specification proposes that if the cellis an unknown cell and configured with DRS configuration for a certainfrequency, a UE may assume that all the cells in the frequency transmitDRS. Accordingly, a UE may assume that a known cell, such as P-cell ofthe UE, does not transmit the DRS. Further, as discussed above, DRS canbe only configured for a certain number of frequencies, the UE onlyperforms the DRS measurement for the configured frequencies and does notperform legacy signal based measurement. Further, the UE may performlegacy signal based measurement for un-configured frequencies.

When a UE is configured with event-triggered reports, it is notable thata UE may be configured with different thresholds for legacy basedmeasurement vs. DRS-based measurement since RSSI measurement can bedifferent. The threshold values are up to the network, or a singleoffset/delta value may be given to the UE which will be used accordingto the measurement RS type or RSSI measurement mechanism. In terms ofcomputing RSSI, it is further considerable to use either OFDM symbols orsubframe which are not carrying discovery RS. One example is to utilizeRSSI on CRS-OFDM symbols (#0/#4 in each slot in normal CP regardless oftarget cell state) if DRS consists of PSS/(SSS)/CSI-RS. Another exampleis to use non-DRS-subframe entire OFDM symbols for RSSI measurement in ameasurement gap. When RSSI is extremely low due to no data transmission,RSRQ computation for the DRS can be done as RSRP×N/{RSRP×N+RSSI} orsimilar fashion not to create infinite value for RSRQ.

Based on the present specification, a single or multiple measurementgaps can be configured for UEs. The following embodiments are mainlyrelated to a situation where multiple measurement gaps are configured.

Handling Multiple Measurement Gaps

As discussed above, a UE can be configured with one measurement gapconfiguration for DRS-based measurement.

In case a UE is configured with a measurement gap due to hardwarerestriction or eNB configuration for DRS based measurement, measurementgap may follow legacy pattern or a new pattern or a relaxed pattern(such as 40 msec periodicity with delta offset value where a UE may beable to perform the measurement m times of measurement gap every 200msec).

FIG. 16 shows a number of measurement gap configurations proposed by thepresent specification.

-   -   As depicted in FIG. 16, in case measurement gap is per legacy        pattern, the UE can be configured with only one measurement gap.    -   Further, in case measurement gap is per the relaxed pattern, the        UE can be configured with up to two measurement gaps where one        with a legacy and the other one with the relaxed pattern. In        this case, a UE can assume that the relaxed pattern is        overlapped with the legacy pattern such that the relaxed pattern        is a subset of the legacy pattern. Or, a UE can ignore        “non-overlap” measurement gap (i.e., configured for the        measurement gap for DRS-based measurement, but not configured        for the measurement gap for legacy signal based measurement (or        the legacy gap pattern), UE can ignore those gaps for the        measurement. Or, a UE is mandated to skip measurement in those        measurement gaps not aligned between two.    -   In case measurement gap is per a new pattern, the UE can be        configured with up to three measurement gaps where a UE should        assume that all three measurement gaps are somewhat aligned. The        three measurement gap can include a measurement gap for        DRS-based measurement, another gap for relaxed requirement (per        relaxed measurement gap pattern) and the last gap for the legacy        measurement gap. First, a UE may assume that the relaxed gap        pattern is a subset of the legacy measurement gap pattern. Then,        a UE may further assume that the measurement gap for DRS-based        measurement is a subset of either the relaxed measurement gap or        the legacy measurement gap (or both of them). Similar to the        above case, a UE may ignore “non-overlapped” gaps between the        measurement gap for DRS-based measurement with either relaxed or        legacy measurement gap configuration or a UE should not perform        measurement in those “non-overlapped” gaps. At the same time, a        UE may be able to request to perform the measurement on those        gaps even though are not aligned with other measurement gaps.        Example is shown in below.

Another possible way of configuring measurement gap for DRS is toconfigure as “a multiple” of a legacy measurement gap such asmeasurement gap following a legacy gap pattern every m-th gaps are usedfor DRS based measurement.

Also, a gap for DRS based measurement can have shorter measurement gapas shown in FIG. 16.

Alternatively, when multiple measurement gap is configured, the totalduration of measurement gap may be covered by Gap pattern 0 (40 msecwith 6 msec gap).

For example, a legacy measurement gap of gap pattern 1 can be configuredfor legacy signal based measurement and a new measurement gap of gappattern 1 can be configured for DRS based measurement. Since the totalservice interruption time of both measurement gaps would not exceed gappattern 0, a UE can perform the measurement. If two measurement gaps arecolliding, a UE can give high priority on DRS based measurement if bothcannot be attempted at the same time.

FIG. 17 shows an additional embodiments related to measurement gapconfigurations proposed by the present specification.

Note there can be other possible options satisfying Proposal 7 (a UEshould not have more service interruption time than currentlyconfigurable measurement gap) without having the any constraint that theconfigured measurement gap pattern for DRS-based measurement should be asubset of the configured legacy measurement gap pattern when twomeasurement gap patterns are configured. While allowing independentmeasurement gap pattern configurations for DRS-based and legacy-basedmeasurement, there can be one restriction that both of the twoconfigured measurement gap patterns (i.e., one for DRS-based and theother for legacy-based measurement) should be covered by one legacymeasurement gap pattern in Table 8.1.2.1-1 in 3GPP TS 36.133. With thisone restriction, the measurement gap pattern for DRS-based measurementcan be newly defined, e.g., with shorter MGL and/or longer MGRP.

Another approach to consider is to restrict the use of Gap Pattern 0when a UE is configured with more than one measurement gap. For example,if a UE is configured with a measurement gap for DRS and anothermeasurement gap for legacy signal based measurement, neither measurementgap pattern should be based on Gap Pattern 0. By this restriction, thetotal service time of two or measurement gaps may not exceed themeasurement gap of Gap Pattern 0 (i.e., 6 msec per 40 msec). Along withthis, a measurement gap pattern for DRS should have longer periodicitythan Gap Pattern 0 or 1 (i.e., 40 msec or 80 msec) and/or shorter gapduration (i.e., 6 msec). Even with this, a gap pattern for the relaxedmeasurement should be a subset of legacy gap pattern. For this, a UEshall not expect to be configured with Gap Pattern 0, if the UE isconfigured with a measurement gap pattern for DRS based measurement anda measurement gap pattern for legacy based measurement. Or, a UE shallnot expect to be configured with Gap Pattern 0, if the UE is configuredwith a measurement gap for discovery signal based measurement.

Hereinafter, more detailed examples related to the above-explainedfeatures are described.

A UE can be configured with a muting pattern per cell or TP. In thiscase, muting is assumed in a RE-level.

For intra-frequency, if the serving cell in the same frequency isactivated, the UE shall not assume that CSI-RS based measurementreporting is triggered.

As discussed in FIG. 11, a set of DRS configuration can be provided viaa higher layer signalling to UE in order for signalling a period,offset, and duration for DRS measurement. Examples of the DRSconfiguration can be defined as shown below. In detail, the followingsare for NZP-CSI-RS configurations. For CSI-RS as DRS, we propose thefollowing configurations in below:

TABLE 4 CSI-RS-ConfigNZP-r11 ::= SEQUENCE { csi-RS-ConfigNZPId-r11CSI-RS-ConfigNZPId-r11, antennaPortsCount-r11 ENUMERATED {an1, an2, an4,an8}, resourceConfig-r11 INTEGER (0..31), subframeConfig-r11 INTEGER(0..154), scramblingIdentity-r11 INTEGER (0..503), qcl-CRS-Info-r11SEQUENCE { qcl-ScramblingIdentity-r11 INTEGER (0..503),crs-PortsCount-r11 ENUMERATED {n1, n2, n4, spare1},mbsfn-SubframeConfigList-r11 CHOICE { release NULL, setup SEQUENCE}subframeConfigList MBSFN- SubframeConfigList } } OPTIONAL -- Need ON }OPTIONAL, -- Need OR ... }

TABLE 5 MeasObjectEUTRA-R12 ::= SEQUENCE { carrierFreq ARFCN-ValueEUTRA, allowedMeasBandwidth AllowedMeasBandwidth,presenceAntennaPort1 PresenceAntennaPort1, neighCellConfigNeighCellConfig, offsetFreq Q-OffsetRange DEFAULT dB0, -- Cell listcellsToRemoveList CellIndexList OPTIONAL, -- Need ON cellsToAddModListCellsToAddModList OPTIONAL, -- Need ON -- Black listblackCellsToRemoveList CellIndexList OPTIONAL, -- Need ONblackCellsToAddModList BlackCellsToAddModList OPTIONAL, -- Need ONcellForWhichToReportCGI PhysCellId OPTIONAL, -- Need ON ..., Dmtc_configDMTCConfiguration mandatory {40, 0 default} measSFPatternMeasSFPatternNeigh OPTIONAL triggerCSI-RS RSRP Boolean {true to triggerCSI-RS RSRP, false not to trigger} triggerCSI-RS RSRQ Boolean {true totrigger CSI-RS RSRP, false not to trigger} DRS-CSI-RSConfigList DRS-CSI-RSConfigFormatList OPTION (can present only if trigger CSI-RS RSRP orRSRQ is enabled) [[measCycleSCell-r10 MeasCycleSCell-r10 OPTIONAL, --Need ON measSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10MeasSubframePatternConfigNeigh-r10 OPTIONAL -- Need ON ]],[[widebandRSRQ-Meas-r11 BOOLEAN OPTIONAL -- Cond WB-RSRQ ]] }

TABLE 6 MeasPatternNeighb { Sequence of 5 bits bitmap }

TABLE 7 DMTC config { Int periodity Int offset Int duration Option, ifnot present assume as 5msec }

TABLE 8 DRS-CSI-RSConfigFormatList { a set of {cell ID; A set ofDRS_CSI-RS-ConfigNZP-r12; } }

TABLE 9 DRS_CSI-RS-ConfigNZP-r12 ::= SEQUENCE { antennaPortsCount-r11ENUMERATED {an1, an2, an4, an 8}, resourceConfig-r11 INTEGER (0..31),subframeConfig-r11 INTEGER (0..154), scramblingIdentity-r11 INTEGER(0..503), }

As shown in Table 7, each set of DRS configurations may include a numberof configuration elements, such as “periodicity” indicating ameasurement period of the DRS, “offset” indicating an offset of themeasurement period, and “duration” indicating a time period during whichthe UE measures the DRS in one period of the measurement period.Further, as shown in Table 5, each set of DRS configurations are definedbased on a frequency (e.g., “carrierFreq”).

When a UE is configured with CSI-RS-RSRP or RSRQ triggered withoutexplicit signaling of CSI-RS configurations, the UE shall assume that:

-   -   During a measurement duration or by MeasPatternNeighb, let's        assume “m” valid downlink subframe indexed 0 to m−1 starting        from the first DMTC subframe; and    -   For each subframe, except for the subframe where SSS is        transmitted (and/or PSS is transmitted), it can assume 20 CSI-RS        configurations or a prefixed set of CSI-RS configurations are        used and the scrambling identify of each CSI-RS can be        determined by function of F (subframe index=relative offset from        DMTC starting among m, CSI-RS RE configuration index).

More specifically, in DRS-CSI-RSConfigFormatList, it can be configuredas shown below.

TABLE 10 { a set of {cell ID; Boolean implicit {true ifDRS_CSI-RS-ConfigNZP-r1 is not present, 0 otherwise} A set ofDRS_CSI-RS-ConfigNZP-r12; OPTIONAL only if implicit is false. }

In this case, further indication of subframes where CSI-RS istransmitted and some function mapping can be higher layer configured percell ID as well.

CSI-RS configuration applicability when the network is not synchronized.

At least for FDD, to enhance the multiplexing/ICIC capability,subframe-shift among clusters can be considered. In this case, whenNZP-CSI-RS like configuration is given, the question arises how to applysubframe offset. This specification proposes to apply the subframeoffset as the following:

TABLE 11 For subframe index of QCL-ed SSS (same scramling ID with QCL-edCRS) m during a DMTC, If the subframe offset is k, k = k % DMTC_Period;k = (m + k) % 5;

For example, subframe offset is 39, and SSS is transmitted in secondsubframe of DMTC, CSI-RS is transmitted in 1st subframe of DRSmeasurement timing configuration (DMTC) window.

Relationship Between DMTC and Measurement Gap.

FIG. 18 shows the relationship between UE measurement on DRS andmeasurement gap.

When a DRS measurement timing configuration (DMTC) is configured perfrequency, for a UE operating cell discovery based on a measurement gap,it is necessary to further restrict the DMTC configurations such that aUE can perform inter-frequency measurements within a measurement gap.Mainly, all or a subset of DMTC occurrence per each frequency should bealigned with a subset of measurement gap pattern. FIG. 18 illustratesthis relationship.

When a UE is configured with multiple DMTC which may not be aligned, interms of UE requirement for discovering a cell, the requirement shouldbe defined that m*max_interval where max interval is the maximuminterval value for a cell where a UE can perform measurement. Forexample, DMTC at a frequency is per 80 msec and measurement gap is per40 msec with the same offset, the interval of measurement is 80 msec. Onthe other hand, if DMTC is not aligned with measurement gap, and DMTC isoverlapped with measurement gap in every 3 measurement gaps, then, theinterval of measurement for that cell is 3*measurement gap interval.Among all frequencies that UE needs to monitor, the interval isdetermined and the requirement is specified by taking the maximuminterval among frequencies.

To avoid this, it is necessary to align DMTC duration and measurementgap. Or, DMTC can be a multiple of measurement gap in that case therequirement needs to be determined by DMTC interval rather thanmeasurement gap interval. Even in this case, it is desirable to have thesame DMTC periodicity for all frequencies not to create complicatedissue in measurement requirement. Also, it is desirable to configureoffset for DMTC and measurement gap such that in a measurement gap, DMTCcan be aligned (if present). Thus, the maximum offset of a DMTC in termsof offset within a measurement gap should be less than 4 msec allowingat least one subframe for the measurement. Given that TDD can be alsoconfigured, the overlap should be able to include subframe #0 and/orsubframe #1 (or #5/#6).

Application of DRS-CSI-RS Measurement and UE Capability

It can be assumed that DRS-CSI-RS is used only for TP identificationwhich may be extended to other cases as well. In other words, DRS-CRSbased measurement is sufficient for cell identification and measurement.In that case, from a UE capability perspective, reporting capability orCSI-RS based measurement can be a separate UE capability from DRS-basedmeasurement capability. In other words, a UE can report two differentcapabilities ? one for DRS-CRS based measurement capability and theother for DRS-CSI-RS based measurement capabilities. Alternatively, a UEcapability can be also associated with CoMP capability. For example,when a UE supports Transmission Mode 10 (or enhanced TMs to support CoMPlike operation) and a UE supports DRS-based measurements, it impliesthat a UE can support DRS-CSI-RS based measurements. In that sense, if aUE does not support Transmission Mode 10 (TM10), it is not very usefulto configure DRS-CSI-RS based measurements. Thus, a UE can assume thatDRS-CSI-RS based measurement can be configured only if it supports TM10.Otherwise, the configuration may be ignored by the UE. Morespecifically, the capability of TM10 is signaled per band and/orband-combination. Thus, for a frequency configured by DMTC, a UE mayassume that DRS-CSI-RS can be configured only if the UE supports TM10(or enhanced TMs to support CoMP like operation or shared cell IDoperation) in that frequency or frequency band where the frequencybelongs. Since, CSI-RS based RSRP requires certain UE processing burden,it is desirable to minimize the number of frequencies that DRS-CSI-RSbased measurements can be configured. This specification proposes that aUE can be configured with maximum “m” frequencies where DRS-CSI-RS basedmeasurement can be performed. For example, m can be fixed as 1 or can bealso signaled by a UE capability. For example, a UE can report themaximum number of frequencies where a UE can perform DRS-CSI-RS basedRSRP such that the network can configure the frequencies of DRSmeasurement based on CSI-RS accordingly. When a UE does not signal thecapability, the network may assume that a frequency band where TM10 issupported can also be also configured for DRS-CSI-RS based measurements.Furthermore, a number of TPs/cells searched by DRS-CSI-RS in a frequencycan be also configured to a UE in a DMTC configuration. For example, aUE can be configured with the number of desired searching TPs/cells in afrequency, that may limit a UE's processing burden as the UE does nothave to search all TPs/cells in that frequency. The number of reportedTPs/cells based on DRS-CSI-RS can be also specified in a specificationas a requirement of a UE.

In the meantime, in addition to the foregoing examples related to DRSmeasurement interval, if a UE is configured with CSI-RS, it is expectedthat the DMTC interval is either 40 msec or 80 msec. It is consideredthat 160 msec interval is not configured with CSI-RS. Alternatively, 160msec ZP-CSI-RS configuration can be added. When a UE is configured with160 msec DRS with CSI-RS, a UE may assume ZP-CSI-RS configurationsconfigured for data rate matching for DRS measurement are applicableonly in DMTC durations.

FIG. 19 shows a block diagram which briefly describes a wirelesscommunication system including an UE 1900 and a BS or cell 2000. The UE1900 and the BS 2000 may operate based on the description as explainedabove. In view of downlink, a transmitter may be a part of the BS 2000and a receiver may be a part of the UE 1900. In view of uplink, atransmitter may be a part of the UE 1900 and a receiver may be a part ofthe BS 2000.

Referring to FIG. 19, the UE 1900 may include a processor 1910, a memory1920 and a radio frequency (RF) unit 1930.

The processor 1910 may be configured to implement proposed proceduresand/or methods described in this application. For example, the processor1910 may operatively coupled to the RF unit 1930, wherein the processor1910 is configured for transmitting signals via the RF unit 1920 basedon a scheduling for UL and/or DL. The processor 1910 may perform singletransmission of signal on uplink and single reception of signal ondownlink at one subframe via the RF unit 1930.

The memory 1920 is coupled with the processor 1910 and stores a varietyof information to operate the processor 1910, which includes datainformation and/or control information. The RF unit 1930 is also coupledwith the processor 1910.

The detailed operations of the UE 1900 are same as described above.

The BS 2000 may include a processor 2010, a memory 2020 and a RF unit2030. Here, the BS may be PCell or SCell and the BS may be a macro cellor small cell. The processor 2010 may be configured to implementproposed procedures and/or methods described in this application. Forexample, the processor 2010 may schedule UL and/or DL.

The memory 2020 is coupled with the processor 2010 and stores a varietyof information to operate the processor 2010, which includes datainformation and/or control information. The RF unit 2030 is also coupledwith the processor 2010. The RF unit 2030 may transmit and/or receive aradio signal.

The detailed operations of the BS 2000 are same as described above.

The UE 1900 and/or the BS 2000 may have single antenna or multipleantennas. The wireless communication system may be called as multipleinput/multiple output (MIMO) system when at least one of the UE 1900 andthe BS 2000 have multiple antennas.

As discussed, the UE 1900 in FIG. 19 performs the above-explainedtechnical features. In detail, the UE may receive measurementconfiguration for a discovery signal (e.g., DRS). The DRS candidates mayinclude CRS, PSS, and SSS. Further, depending on configuration ofCSI-RS, the DRS may further includes CSI-RS. Preferably, the measurementconfiguration includes at least one set of configuration elements, andeach set of the configuration elements is defined per a frequency of acorresponding cell. Further, the each set of the configuration elementsindicates a measurement period of the discovery signal, an offset of themeasurement period, and a measurement duration.

The UE 1900 in FIG. 19 performs a measurement on the discovery signalbased on the measurement period of the discovery signal, the offset ofthe measurement period, and the measurement duration. Further, the UE'smeasurement on the discovery signal is only performed on a TDD downlinksubframe allocated by SIB when an enhanced Interference Mitigation &Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA) is used for the UE. In the conventional arts,CRS measurement is performed in every subframes without referring to anyinformation on periodicity/interval of the CRS. Also, PSS/SSSmeasurement is performed without referring to any information onperiodicity/interval of PSS/SSS. However, to support communication withsmall cells, which supports power on/off operations, the presentspecification further proposes DRS configurations, each being set for acertain frequency. Accordingly, the present embodiments are distinctiveover the conventional arts. Further, the conventional arts does notprovide clarification or solution when the eIMTA is used for UE(s) whichsupports DRS measurement. For at least this reason, the presentembodiments are distinctive of the conventional arts are distinctiveover the conventional arts.

In the above exemplary systems, although the methods have been describedon the basis of the flowcharts using a series of the steps or blocks,the present specification is not limited to the sequence of the steps,and some of the steps may be performed at different sequences from theremaining steps or may be performed simultaneously with the remainingsteps. Furthermore, the above-described embodiments include variousaspects of examples. Accordingly, the present specification should beconstrued to include all other alternations, modifications, and changeswhich fall within the scope of the claims.

In the description regarding the present specification, when it is saidthat one element is “connected” or “coupled” to the other element, theone element may be directly connected or coupled to the other element,but it should be understood that a third element may exist between thetwo elements. In contrast, when it is said that one element is “directlyconnected” or “directly coupled” to the other element, it should beunderstood that a third element does not exist between the two elements.

The invention claimed is:
 1. A method of receiving control informationfor receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, the methodperformed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising: receiving ameasurement configuration for a discovery signal, wherein the discoverysignal includes a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or a secondarysynchronization signal (SSS), wherein the measurement configurationincludes at least one set of configuration elements, the each set of theconfiguration elements indicates a measurement period of the discoverysignal, an offset of the measurement period, and a measurement durationduring which the UE measures the discovery signal in one period of themeasurement period, and wherein the each set of the configurationelements is defined per a frequency.
 2. The method of claim 1, whereinall of the measurement period, the offset, and the measurement durationare given in number of subframes.
 3. The method of claim 1, furthercomprising: performing a measurement on the discovery signal based onthe measurement configuration.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein, whenan enhanced Interference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA) is usedin the UE, the UE assumes to receive a downlink reference signal ondownlink subframe allocated by a system information block (SIB).
 5. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the discovery signal further includes achannel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on aconfiguration of the CSI-RS, wherein the configuration of the CSI-RSincludes an interval of the CSI-RS and an offset of the CSI-RS, whereinthe UE further receives a channel status information-reference signal(CSI-RS) configuration including at least one set of CSI-RSconfiguration elements used for a zero power CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RSconfiguration includes at least one set of CSI-RS configurationelements, each set of CSI-RS configuration elements includes CSI-RSinterval information and CSI-RS offset information.
 6. The method ofclaim 5, wherein, when the at least one set of CSI-RS configurationelements includes a plurality set of CSR-RS configuration elements, eachset of CSI-RS configuration elements includes CSI-RS intervalinformation and CSI-RS offset information, and each set of CSI-RSconfiguration elements is separately configured.
 7. The method of claim1, further comprising: receiving a measurement gap configurationindicating a length and a repetition period of a measurement gap.
 8. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the measurement configuration for thediscovery signal is received via a radio resource control (RRC) message.9. The method of claim 8, wherein the RRC message is received at the UEwhich is in an RRC connected mode.
 10. The method of claim 1, whereinthe measurement on the discovery signal starts on a first subframecarrying the SSS in one period of the measurement period.
 11. The methodof claim 1, wherein a set of the configuration elements defined for onefrequency contains a single measurement period, a single offset, and asingle measurement duration.
 12. The method of claim 1, wherein the eachset of the configuration elements is applied to a plurality of cellshaving a same frequency.
 13. The method of claim 1, wherein a systemframe number (SFN) of a macro cell of the UE is used as a reference fora duration where the UE performs the measurement on the discoverysignal.
 14. The method of claim 1, wherein UE does not performmeasurement on the discovery signal in a subframe configured forMultimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) service.
 15. A userequipment (UE) for receiving control information for receiving a signalin a wireless communication system, comprising: a radio frequency (RF)unit configured for receiving the signal; and a processor coupled to theRF unit and configured to: receive a measurement configuration for adiscovery signal, wherein the discovery signal includes a primarysynchronization signal (PSS) or a secondary synchronization signal(SSS), wherein the measurement configuration includes at least one setof configuration elements, the each set of the configuration elementsindicates a measurement period of the discovery signal, an offset of themeasurement period, and a measurement duration during which the UEmeasures the discovery signal in one period of the measurement period,and wherein the each set of the configuration elements is defined per afrequency.
 16. The UE of claim 15, wherein all of the measurementperiod, the offset, and the measurement duration are given in number ofsubframes.
 17. The UE of claim 15, wherein the processor is furtherconfigured to perform a measurement on the discovery signal based on themeasurement configuration.
 18. The UE of claim 15, wherein, when anenhanced Interference Mitigation & Traffic Adaptation (eIMTA) is used inthe UE, the UE assumes to receive a downlink reference signal ondownlink subframe allocated by a system information block (SIB).